Patting the wrists, rolling the eyes.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by ironweed
I would speculate that the blood that would have been spilled in an invasion would have been largely the blood of active combatants on both sides, rather than the Japanese civilian population in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and I think that is a point where one can draw a moral distinction.

I think your speculation is wholly unrealistic. A land war in Japan would have been devastating, and the estimates of civilian casualties were massive.