At the same time you can turn that around and say that there are thousands of regular people (that didn't have any power over what their country was doing and didn't participate in it) who would be alive today and that aren't because of two bombs... So it's not that strong of an argument when you think about it...

I always find it fascinating that people even ignore the simple fact that American soldiers were more than capable of war crimes themselves.

Disregarding their conquered nations, disregarding the millions of soldiers that would die, far, far more civilians would have died in the invasion under equally horrible conditions.

Starvation, gangrape, summary execution, dying trapped in rubble from an artillery strike, deaths due to extreme shortages of all kinds, all these horrors and more awaited the Japanese citizenry if the Allies invaded. It is just incontrovertible fact that the bombs lessened human suffering by an incomprehensible degree.

Tbf, they were ready to surrender after the first bomb but it wasn't unconditional. They wanted protection for their emperor. The US wanted to drop the second bomb to make Russia think we had more. This is an open secret. The second bombing has nothing to do with stopping Japan.

And pretending like everyone has the power to end a war is horrifyingly childish. It's actually scary how naive and simple your viewpoint is when taken into context the monstrosity you're defending.