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#52 Dec 06 2012 at 9:24 PM Rating: Decent
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Bullsh*t. A smart bomb is a thousand times more lilkely to eliminate only its target when compared to say, releasing a cloud of sarin gas into the open air. Even a lowly machine gun is dramatically less indiscriminate than an artillary shell laced with mustard gas or an airborne agent orange delivery. Any argument to the contrary is born of self-delusion.


A smart bomb is a thousand times more likely to kill an innocent bystander than injecting the target with a nerve toxin. Delivery systems aren't payloads. See the logical fallacy with your argument yet?

Also, don't take this wrong way, but it's hard for me to imagine that anyone values your opinion on this much relative to mine. Now if we were discussing pork rinds or something where you had any education or experience not acquired in the last hour, then maybe. Actually, probably not then either. Forget I brought it up.
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#53 Dec 06 2012 at 9:56 PM Rating: Decent
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A smart bomb is a thousand times more likely to kill an innocent bystander than injecting the target with a nerve toxin. Delivery systems aren't payloads. See the logical fallacy with your argument yet?


One of these requires a close encounter with the target, putting the delivery agent in substantially more danger and is also impractical in too many scenarios to be worthy of serious discussion. I'll let you figure out which.

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Also, don't take this wrong way, but it's hard for me to imagine that anyone values your opinion on this much relative to mine. Now if we were discussing pork rinds or something where you had any education or experience not acquired in the last hour, then maybe. Actually, probably not then either. Forget I brought it up.


Blah blah blah. That crutch must be getting old and withered by now.
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One of these requires a close encounter with the target, putting the delivery agent in substantially more danger and is also impractical in too many scenarios to be worthy of serious discussion. I'll let you figure out which.


Yes, that's the point, fuckstick. Now see if you can extrapolate the painfully obvious point you picked up to the comparison of a $20 artillery shell and a $17,000 precision guided munition you made earlier.

I won't hold my breath.
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Individuals will always find a way to kill other individuals, and governments have an inherent right to defend their sovereignty. Using chemical weapons on your own citizens or the citizens of another country absolutely cannot be compared to individual gun ownership.

Of course it can. There is nothing "magic" about chemical weapons. They aren't outlawed because of the horror of them, they're outlawed because they are cheap and can level the playing field for poorer countries in conflict with richer ones. The idea that it's "worse" to die from mustard gas or whatever than to die from a bomb firing robot is an idiotic self serving construct of the powerful.


I dunno, having seen a brief VX test footage segment, I think I'll take the bomb robot. That **** did not look pleasent.
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I dunno, having seen a brief VX test footage segment, I think I'll take the bomb robot. That sh*t did not look pleasent.

Neither is being shot. Or stabbed. "visually unappealing to observers" shouldn't be high on the list of how to make decisions about how to kill people.
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It seems like the biggest benefit to "conventional" armaments is the chance at instantaneous death. Whereas bio/chem/nukes pretty much guarantee horrendous pain and suffering as you bleed to death through your pores or whatever (barring close proximity to a nuclear blast), only *some* gunshot wounds cause your bowels to unravel as you try to find cover and a medic.
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#58 Dec 07 2012 at 3:06 AM Rating: Excellent
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Also, don't take this wrong way, but it's hard for me to imagine that anyone values your opinion on this much relative to mine.


I don't know. It's kind of hard to take someone seriously when they haven't mastered the relatively simple mechanic of the quote. Smiley: lol
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#59 Dec 07 2012 at 4:44 AM Rating: Good
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With the former, unless you're specifically out to do it, you aren't going to end up killing a large quantity of innocent civilians


I am really failing to see much substantive difference between killing people with this or with that. Civilians make up a huge percentage of deaths in so-called conventional warfare.

Rationally speaking, guns, today, at this very moment are hurting way more inocent people than chemical weapns. Which isn't to say chemical weapons are anything but nasty, but so are the ak47s used to round up the next batch of child soldiers.

I'll grant that chemical weapons are less controllable and may seem scarier

but I don't really think being machine gunned to death would be pleasant ...how about we stop quibbling about how we kill people and move towards a more rational world?
#60 Dec 07 2012 at 7:37 AM Rating: Good
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A smart bomb is a thousand times more likely to kill an innocent bystander than injecting the target with a nerve toxin. Delivery systems aren't payloads. See the logical fallacy with your argument yet?


One of these requires a close encounter with the target, putting the delivery agent in substantially more danger and is also impractical in too many scenarios to be worthy of serious discussion. I'll let you figure out which.

Someone just changed the argument mid-stream. I'll let you figure out who.
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#61 Dec 07 2012 at 9:06 AM Rating: Good
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A smart bomb is a thousand times more likely to kill an innocent bystander than injecting the target with a nerve toxin. Delivery systems aren't payloads. See the logical fallacy with your argument yet?


One of these requires a close encounter with the target, putting the delivery agent in substantially more danger and is also impractical in too many scenarios to be worthy of serious discussion. I'll let you figure out which.

Someone just changed the argument mid-stream. I'll let you figure out who.


I didn't change the argument at all. He presented an extremely isolated example of chemical weapon use that contradicted the claim that such weapons are massively indicscriminate when compared with conventional options, and I pointed out the general impracticality of that example. The only counterpoint that followed was **********************
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I didn't change the argument at all. He presented an extremely isolated example of chemical weapon use that contradicted the claim that such weapons are massively indicscriminate when compared with conventional options, and I pointed out the general impracticality of that example. The only counterpoint that followed was "@#%^stick".


No, shitbird, your argument was trivially logically refuted. Thus endeth the lesson. If you want to continue to Gbaji your way through rationalizing an incoherent "ahh chemicals are scary!!" position, be my guest. I'm done with it. Enjoy as many revisions, "clarifications" last word posts, etc as you like.
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#63 Dec 07 2012 at 9:24 AM Rating: Good
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I didn't change the argument at all. He presented an extremely isolated example of chemical weapon use that contradicted the claim that such weapons are massively indicscriminate when compared with conventional options, and I pointed out the general impracticality of that example. The only counterpoint that followed was "@#%^stick".


No, shitbird, your argument was trivially logically refuted.


Using an example that is completely contrary to the discussion, unless of course you're claiming that international concern over Assad's use of chemical weapons is limited to his ability to deliver them directly to individual opponents, in which case, my self-delusion comment stands firm.

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Right... keep on not posting with your bad self.

#64 Dec 07 2012 at 9:29 AM Rating: Good
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Smasharoo wrote:
A smart bomb is a thousand times more likely to kill an innocent bystander than injecting the target with a nerve toxin. Delivery systems aren't payloads. See the logical fallacy with your argument yet?


One of these requires a close encounter with the target, putting the delivery agent in substantially more danger and is also impractical in too many scenarios to be worthy of serious discussion. I'll let you figure out which.

Someone just changed the argument mid-stream. I'll let you figure out who.


I didn't change the argument at all. He presented an extremely isolated example of chemical weapon use that contradicted the claim that such weapons are massively indiscriminate when compared with conventional options, and I pointed out the general impracticality of that example. The only counterpoint that followed was "@#%^stick".

A traditional explosive doesn't discriminate any better than a canister of gas. You ignored that bit of information. Injection by ricin isn't anymore isolated than gassing by sarin - both are rare, both require some deal of chemistry to pull off.

Getting blowed up by an IED could be just as common as getting blowed up by a sniper bullet.

However you decided to compare the sniper bullet to the canister of sarin.
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#65 Dec 07 2012 at 9:39 AM Rating: Decent
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Smasharoo wrote:
A smart bomb is a thousand times more likely to kill an innocent bystander than injecting the target with a nerve toxin. Delivery systems aren't payloads. See the logical fallacy with your argument yet?


One of these requires a close encounter with the target, putting the delivery agent in substantially more danger and is also impractical in too many scenarios to be worthy of serious discussion. I'll let you figure out which.

Someone just changed the argument mid-stream. I'll let you figure out who.


I didn't change the argument at all. He presented an extremely isolated example of chemical weapon use that contradicted the claim that such weapons are massively indiscriminate when compared with conventional options, and I pointed out the general impracticality of that example. The only counterpoint that followed was "@#%^stick".

A traditional explosive doesn't discriminate any better than a canister of gas. You ignored that bit of information. Injection by ricin isn't anymore isolated than gassing by sarin - both are rare, both require some deal of chemistry to pull off.

Getting blowed up by an IED could be just as common as getting blowed up by a sniper bullet.

However you decided to compare the sniper bullet to the canister of sarin.


Even an IED is isolated in its impact. Sarin, not so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin_gas_attack_on_the_Tokyo_subway

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In five coordinated attacks, the perpetrators released sarin on several lines of the Tokyo Metro, killing thirteen people, severely injuring fifty and causing temporary vision problems for nearly a thousand others.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin

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1988: Over the span of two days in March, the ethnic Kurd city of Halabja in northern Iraq (population 70,000) was bombarded with chemical and cluster bombs, which included sarin, in the Halabja poison gas attack. An estimated 5,000 people died almost instantly.[21]


The suggestion that typical methods of delivering Sarin gas are any less or equally discriminate than conventional weapons is ludicrous at best, but keep on keepin' on with the false premises. I guarantee that international concern over Assad's potential use of chemcal weapons is based on his ability to deliver them to mass quantities of people, and not at all based in some theoretical isolated incident proposed by some idiot on a gaming forum.
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The suggestion that typical methods of delivering Sarin gas are any less or equally discriminate than conventional weapons is ludicrous at best, but keep on keepin' on with the false premises. I guarantee that international concern over Assad's potential use of chemcal weapons is based on his ability to deliver them to mass quantities of people, and not at all based in some theoretical isolated incident proposed by some idiot on a gaming forum.

And if he had a stockpile of daisy cutters that he'd threatened his people with the international community could sleep better at night?








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Well, I think I get it... Chemical and biological attacks cover such a large range and affects so many innocent people, that it's different than a handgun. The rest of the world should mimic the US. I mean, what country would we be if we ever used a massive nuclear weapon to kill hundreds of thousands of people.Smiley: rolleyes

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That was a very long play, Alma.
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And if he had a stockpile of daisy cutters that he'd threatened his people with the international community could sleep better at night?


Precisely!

I, for one, feel much better knowing that people are indiscriminately slaughtering civilians in a socially acceptable manner.
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I dunno, having seen a brief VX test footage segment, I think I'll take the bomb robot. That sh*t did not look pleasent.

Neither is being shot. Or stabbed. "visually unappealing to observers" shouldn't be high on the list of how to make decisions about how to kill people.


I get the whole "either way, you're still dead" argument, but even still, those 30 seconds until your foot hits that bucket are really important to you. I mean, If I have to go, sexed to death by a supermodel is probably going to be prefferable to "extreme, excrutiating agony of the worst sort imaginable whilst your organs and eyes liquify into a gelatenous soup" regardless of what any onlookers may think. Though if one is trying to make a point along the lines of "attack us and die horribly or if you don't die, you'll wish you were dead" in a military strategic sense, I suspect one would find that forces under your command would be more willing to face increased firepower than nerve gas. Regardless of the relative cost of delivery method or actual effectiveness, there is definitly a psychological component to chemical warfare that can't be ignored.
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That was a very long play, Alma.


Just pointing out the fact that this is all about preventing potential enemies from having the upper hand at war, nothing more nothing less.

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While I agree in principle to Smash's earlier point that delivery systems are not payloads, I think that point doesn't really address the issue here. As was also stated earlier in the thread, people (and nations) gravitate to chemical weapons because they are cheap. But their cheapness is mostly because they grant the ability to kill a large number of people when you don't have the means for accurate delivery. The result being that if someone is building chemical weapons to get around the fact that they don't have a large and well trained military, or special forces teams, or pin point accuracy munitions and the air superiority required to use them, or even particularly accurate rockets or artillery, it's a pretty good bet that the use of those chemical weapons will be broad and incredibly indiscriminate.


Lets not kid ourselves here. The reason to focus on chemical weapons is precisely because one knows they can't accurately hit their targets with conventional weapons. I could fire a hundred rockets with explosive payloads at a target and hope I score a hit, or I could fire one identically inaccurate rocket and as long as I hit near the target (and upwind), I'm going to kill it. Of course, I'll also kill everything else in the area as well, not just the unlucky folks who might get hit by a random rocket blast. That's the problem with chemical weapons. The very use case for the weapons virtually ensures that they'll only be used in situations where a large amount of collateral damage is going to occur (and often is the very point of the attack).

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But their cheapness is mostly because they grant the ability to kill a large number of people when you don't have the means for accurate delivery.


That's because you're assuming the target. If your target is "everyone and everything", then it's fairly accurate. I'm sure that everyone that is meant to be safe is safe.

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Lets not kid ourselves here. The reason to focus on chemical weapons is precisely because one knows they can't accurately hit their targets with conventional weapons.


Not at all. The reason is because no one wants to be on the other end of it. Again, if you're at war and you're willing to nuke a city, then you're not concerned of "innocent people". Those people ARE your targets. You are seeking TOTAL DESTRUCTION, so at that point, chemical and biological weapons are VERY ACCURATE.
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Um...? That's a very "interesting" definition of accurate.
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Please provide a contradicting definition.
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