[OT] Ten Technologies That Deserve to Die

[Krieg]

My instructors in basic infantry training told us why Germany had no problems with signing the treaty against anti-personnel land mines - because if there really were a major conflict on the horizon where we might need them, we could quickly discard the treaty and produce them in any number we might need...

I'll just have to keep my comments to myself on that one...as they lead down a path that would quickly find this thread locked.

Let's just say that I find that chilling...but not at all surprising.

 

[Nightfall]

I guess I'm the only one that doesn't believe guns should have been invented. I don't mind cannons, but hand guns...not necessary. Give me swords and knifes any day.

 

[Krieg]

Give me swords and knifes any day.

Yeah because having your buddy stuff your intestines back into your gut is much cooler when it's the result of a sword wound.

 

[Nightfall]

Well it least you can see a sword coming. Not always the case with guns, land mines or thermo nuclear holocasts.

 

[hellbender]

Well it least you can see a sword coming. Not always the case with guns, land mines or thermo nuclear holocasts.

Or arrows.

We need that little device in Escape from LA that will halt all electrical devices, grinding the world to a halt. Civilization is already in decline, why not give it a shove?

hellbender

 

[Krieg]

Well it least you can see a sword coming. Not always the case with guns, land mines or thermo nuclear holocasts.

Which doesn't make it any less horrific or deadly.

 

[Dark Jezter]

It never ceases to amaze me how people romantacise swords and knives while condeming guns as evil and bad for humanity on a whole.

That being said, I'm predicting this thread won't last much longer before it's locked.

 

[Krieg]

It never ceases to amaze me how people romantacise swords and knives while condeming guns as evil and bad for humanity on a whole.

Hasn't that always been the case though? Humanity has always seemed to dream of past "golden ages" while condemning the dirty mundane present...

 

[Nightfall]

Bah I'm not romantizing anything. Sure sword wounds suck. Infection, amuptation, and other ways of dying. It's a weapon. But at least it takes more than a MODICRUM of skill to use. Guns you aim and shoot. Period. And if you miss, then you don't get another chance to do better. Usually.

Krieg,

No but that's killing for you. I'm not in favor of it. But I say I prefer make it MEAN something rather just be senseless slaughter. I'm with Chris Rock, let's make every bullet cost 5,000 dollars. That way you KNOW there won't be innocent bystanders. Same is true in sword fights. The chances are FAR less likely you'll either hit your target...or hurt yourself than get someone else.

Hellbender,

I'd much prefer old school "wrath of god' end of world. Thus I favor biological weapons. Sure it's a little more refined but it's still just plagues. And I like plagues.

 

[tarchon]

I'll just have to keep my comments to myself on that one...as they lead down a path that would quickly find this thread locked.

Let's just say that I find that chilling...but not at all surprising.

Why? That's why most treaties get signed - if governments thought of them as truly binding under any circumstance, we'd live in a world without treaties. It would be a little much to expect a state to abide by any treaty if that treaty materially impaired its capacity to survive a dire threat.