It seems odd that those running the army would think of something like this. Sure, it could have some potential use in day to day life, (scary as that may be) but in a war it would seem a bit useless. The point of any war is to force something out of someone, be it property, goods, or a concept ie. the crusades. We do that by giving our rivals no choice. "If we kill all of you, it will be worse than giving us what we want." Either that, or we do kill all of them, and we take what we want. Either way, a war usually involves eliminating the enemy forces. Not stunning them. Many light conspiracy theorists believe war is important even for population control on our end, (shouldn't there be more remote control tanks and planes by now?). I just wonder what was going through these scientist's heads when they thought it would be productive to simply wound the enemy.
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It seems odd that those running the army would think of something like this. Sure, it could have some potential use in day to day life, (scary as that may be) but in a war it would seem a bit useless. The point of any war is to force something out of someone, be it property, goods, or a concept ie. the crusades. We do that by giving our rivals no choice. "If we kill all of you, it will be worse than giving us what we want." Either that, or we do kill all of them, and we take what we want. Either way, a war usually involves eliminating the enemy forces. Not stunning them. Many light conspiracy theorists believe war is important even for population control on our end, (shouldn't there be more remote control tanks and planes by now?). I just wonder what was going through these scientist's heads when they thought it would be productive to simply wound the enemy.
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