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domiguy -> RE: Miss Landmine (11/21/2007 10:42:20 AM)
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ORIGINAL: EPGAH
If you can show me a landmine that can pick itself out of the dirt and move over to a living, breathing target before detonating, or even rebury itself in a "more advantageous" location, I'll not only apologize; I'll be greatly impressed!
As is, though, if told an area has been mined, and people walk on it anyways, you could consider it a Nietzschian/Darwinian thinning of the herd, or at least a mass-suicide of the unlucky! The ones who PLACED the mines know where they are and can avoid them--usually!
(Failure to avoid one's own bombs is generally considered dark humor!)
As to your figures, philosophy, the idea of terrorists--I'm sorry, "guerrillas"--using explosives, whether tripmines, remote-detonation roadside bombs, or even self-immolation bombs, has been well-documented, and can't exactly be considered a surprise in the classic sense of the word. Weapons can be either good or evil, depending who wields/deploys them...If a government doesn't use a weapon, or a CLASS of weapons, and the terrorists do, then the terrorists will have an advantage over the "fair-playing" government! Do you consider this twisted definition of "honor" more important than LIFE?
Or put another way, if you know your opponent is playing by an anything-goes playbook, why not show them that you can be better at "anything-goes" fighting than they are?
If a playground bully is going around and say, kicking other kids in the nuts, wouldn't a good swift kick in the nuts from an "adult" convince him that that hurts and he shouldn't do it? (Yes, this kind of punishment is illegal in America, the adult would be charged with assault and battery, child-abuse, and whatever, while the bully would be considered "misunderstood", and in need of sympathy, not correction!)
But remember also, landmines are used only because they WORK...I don't condone it necessarily, peasants in the field shouldn't have to carry a metal-detector any more than Americans taking a stroll down certain streets should have to wear body-armor just to survive! But we don't live in a perfect world, we either adapt to worsening circumstances, or we put an end (In any interpretation you'd like) to the entity or entities causing the problems.
Also, please note the current debate over land-mines intimately mirrors the arguments over assault-rifles: The police are prohibited from using them without special permissions, but they "magically" find their way into the hands of inner-city youths and disgruntled high-school students! Being a policeman or honest citizen is now MUCH more dangerous, but very few advocate upgrading the armaments of the police to match their enemies!
Landmines are effective for decades....They continue to kill after resolutions have been reached. The Khmer Rouge is long gone but the millions of mines that they laid are still active.
How your mind works is beyond me. All rifles regardless of the style have one thing in common, they must be pointed at their target to be effective...Landmines are indiscriminate killers....Over 25% of all people wounded by land mines are children....
One last note, I am much more leery about the police than I am the "inner city" youths or the disgruntled high school student. In the future it might be wise to not put honest citizen and policeman in the same sentence. I believe that there are many people who are much more concerned about a run in with the police over having to deal with the inner city youths and their disgruntled high school student contemporaries.
I have read a few of your prior posts.....I have never agreed or found anything of value in any of them.
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