@Vectorkov:
So he just keeps killing citizens and it gets easier and easier if the same situation continues to present itself? I know its a hypothetical situation, but it seems like an awful precedent to establish for acceptable Marine action towards non-enemy combatant civilians in the One Piece world.
True. At the same time, I have a dislike of intentionaly making situation absurd just to justify a certaint point of view.
Especially since it can work both ways. I can make Buster Call of Ohara more and more justified, by devolving it into hypothetical scenarios that didn't happen.
In my experience, there no point in doing it. If there was flottilla of those ships, he would still blow them up, true. At the same time, from his perspective, if he didn't do it, there was a high probability of another Island burning.
And you know what, Robin was totaly willing to see the world burn to save her friends. If I was Akainu, I would not trust any of those people to not use their knowledge to do the same.