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Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!
So you are saying there is no distinction between using nerve gas or chemical weapons and machine gun bullets?
Apart from the fact that you can direct machine gun bullets and cannot direct the effects of nerve gas or chemical radiation, ie not discriminating and, like in this case, killing babies and children.
I think it says a lot, when a combatant choses to use cowardly methods to inflict losses upon the other.
In fact, what is the primary objective of the use of chemical warfare?
Certainly the answer is not indiscriminately killing off your enemy.
There are a raft of reasons why chemical warfare is frowned upon in the world.
A raft of reasons.
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The whole fear of poison gas is an irrational fear from an earlier era.
I can understand how, in the trenches of WWI, you would wet yourself at the sight of a gas slowly drifting towards you, knowing that it would kill you.
But in this day and age, chemical weapons are not too hard to come by, especially when you can see things like this:
http://gizmodo.com/5847985/feuding-w...-of-a-wal+mart
truth is, small scale chemical weapon creation is easily doable in your home, its arguably easier to create chlorine gas in small scales than it is to create gun powder.
With a few trained chemists and a chemicals facility (ex. a fertilizer factory). Its not too difficult to create a wide variety of chemical weapons. it is probably easier to convert a chemical factory into a factory for chemical weapons than it is to convert a manufactory into artillery production.
The use of poison gas is just like the use of any other weapon with an area of effect, and should not be feared as the end of the world.