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If the use of gas is so reasonable, one wonders why he only supports using it against "uncivilized tribes".
by whack 8y ago
If the use of gas is so reasonable, one wonders why he only supports using it against "uncivilized tribes".
- Rebelgecko 8y agoI wonder, ethically/morally, is that better or worse than using it on your own people?
- Teever 8y agoWell to be honest I'm sure Churchill would not have any qualms of using gas against the Irish or the Welsh.
- Udik 8y agoHe probably didn't think much of them either.
- tedunangst 8y agoHow did you conclude that?
- darkpuma 8y agoChurchill advocated for the use of weaponized anthrax against Germany, so I don't think you can say he was biased in this respect.
- mikhailfranco 8y agoAs tested on Gruinard Island, just off the coast of Scotland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruinard_Island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruinard_Island
- dragonsngoblins 8y agoI'd assume that it stems from a few places. One of them would probably be the "White Mans Burden", but another would probably be that uncivilized tribes don't have guns to shoot back with and so using modern weaponry against them will end in a lot of deaths.
- dragonwriter 8y agoI don't think he only supported it in that case (the part of the quote before that reference makes it clearly general and not specific to that case), I think that's the user case he saw as being immediately relevant to Britain in the context of the efforts to ban it in warfare.