I mean, I'm probably just being contrarian and I too would appreciate it if people stopped suffering, but like, people are suffering worse than that right now as we type this.
70,000 dying in a flash certainly puts an end to their suffering.
Like the beatles joke, "were the atomic bombs the worst atrocity of all time? They weren't even the worst of that war!"
I mean, we don't really need to rank awful things, we can acknowledge anything beyond a certain level is awful without comparing them, but lots of awful things happen without involving nukes.
that's debatable. like, worst single instance atrocity? possibly is
Fortunately the novelty wore off fair swiftly.
The application sure, but the novelty of it being nuclear rather than conventional kept parties interested in it for quite a while!