• lud@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    And it’ll cause more injuries than deaths.

    That is the entire problem with chemical weapons. They injure people badly.

    That’s why chemical weapons are banned while bombs aren’t.

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      3 months ago

      That’s actually not the problem with chemical weapons. Chemical weapons are banned due to their indiscriminate nature (being blown by the wind) and really the fact that it causes slow deaths over years. It’s that it’s tantamount to torture (which is also banned).

      Blowing people’s limbs off is considered A-OK as long as it’s not done with land mines.