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Originally Posted by AmateurFlix
You're twisting my words, I have said nothing about 'powerful' weapons.
I spoke merely of weapons of precision as opposed to weapons which cannot be controlled or directed and that kill indiscriminately. Those are two very different topics, do not confuse them.
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A laser guided missile can be controlled. So can most new age rocket launchers. A target for a grenade can be chosen just as much as one using a gun. An IED has more precision and accuracy as a gun as you can choose your target beforehand.
A lot of these weapons don't kill indiscriminately. The technology has advanced to a point that they can be used to eliminate individual targets just as well as other guns. In fact, probably better in some cases. Take buckshot for example which can indiscriminately hurt/kill people within the vicinity. As well as handguns with armor piercing bullets which can go through walls and kill unintended targets (happens in Chicago all the time with drive-bys).
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Originally Posted by AmateurFlix
I think it's safe to say that catapulting corpses infected with common and naturally occurring illnesses is a bit different than the exotic man-made or refined strains of extremely weird and deadly shit that scientists have cooked up in modern labs  So yes, modern germ/chemical warfare would have been inconceivable to them. The framers of our constitution were no doubt brilliant men, but I don't think they could easily predict 150+ years of scientific "advancement" into a field which did not even exist during their lifetimes. |
Smallpox and the bubonic plague killed millions of people around the world. The plague killed a large percent of Europe while smallpox took out a ton of Native Americans. I don't know how much more "deadly" you want a virus to be. I agree that technology has advanced on germ warfare, but if you get smallpox today, you're most likely going to die.