The groups we supported to prevent that were arguably worse...many more deaths on their records.
Spending time in the dominant company of same-sex peers, Lise Eliot, a professor of neurobiology at the Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University, points out, "shifts a person's vocal pitch, relational style, academic and extracurricular interests, and career choices in ways that arguably prevent their full development as human beings".
Regardless that the second, larger bomb resulted in a smaller death toll ("only" 50,000, compared to Hiroshima's 135,000), the bombing of Nagasaki has even less moral justification than Hiroshima, which was – arguably – the catalyst for the ending of the war in Asia, and – arguably – prevented a far greater death toll from the long conflict which would have otherwise have continued.
The deal also saved Merrill from impending collapse and arguably prevented a greater financial calamity from unfolding in the immediate aftermath of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.
Although his 1982 score for Tenebrae was sampled heavily by Justice, Goblin synth-wizard Claudo Simonetti's unfashionable genre-film associations have arguably prevented him from getting full recognition as a pioneer of electronic music.
Brown's eventual decision not to run after Smith's death, which ensured what was in effect the coronation of Tony Blair, can be seen in hindsight as avoiding a repeat of the rivalry between Tony Crosland and Roy Jenkins, which had, a generation earlier, arguably prevented either from becoming a Labour prime minister.
The current flexibility to do so arguably prevented the financial crisis from being even more destructive.
While levelling the playing field for students, who mostly choose schools closest to home, the strategy has arguably prevented Germany from producing world-class institutions that can effectively compete with those in other countries.
Tea Party activists arguably prevented Republicans from winning control of that chamber in last year's congressional elections by forcing the party to back inexperienced, erratic candidates over more electable choices in several races.
