Zardnaar
Legend
No I'm not. I'm not making any value judgment on kids. What I'm arguing is that if your choices are murder lots of kids, or don't murder lots of kids, you don't murder lots of kids. The U.S. would not have been responsible for what would have happened in the other two scenarios.
You're indirectly responsible for the other dead kids and directly responsible for the more dead Americans though.
You had the option if saving lives and didn't do it.
Would you slow the war down in Europe to spare the German civilians and let the regime murder more people?
You can easily turn that into a D&D thing as well. Do nothing BBEG kills more people? Or deal with them sooner killing more people short term.