• Sarmyth@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Eh, that’s pretty metal. What I like about it is that it’s not some chemical weapon that floats on the air to hiteveryone in the vicinity. You will see where you are hitting clearly because it’s like a bright tracer round. And it’ll cause more injuries than deaths.

    You almost have a sporting chance to get away once it’s started compared to the relatively sudden chaos of explosions.

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      2 months ago

      Eh, that’s pretty metal.

      It’s definitely pretty, and as thermite is a mixture of metal powder and metal oxide, your statement is entirely correct.

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      2 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.

      • Sarmyth@lemmy.world
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        2 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.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah you can choose to just give up before getting suddenly delivered to the 360 degrees surrounding you in every direction.