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This is bad logic. By your metrics, the most lethal thing in the world is a rusty spoon stabbed into some ones eye; either it kills the target instantly or kil
by derp_dee_derp 8y ago
This is bad logic.
By your metrics, the most lethal thing in the world is a rusty spoon stabbed into some ones eye; either it kills the target instantly or kills them later due to infection. Very close to 100% death rate. Very lethal. No collateral damages, either.
And yet no professional militaries are armed with rusty spoons
- Dylan16807 8y agoI don't know what logic you're seeing but that's not an accurate description. A spoon is low lethality, low collateral.
- dragonsngoblins 8y agoThat's because the lethality of a rusty spoon is actually very low... The lethality of having been stabbed in the eye might be high, but not of spoons themselves since it is hard to successfully wound the eye of an enemy soldier with a rusty spoon at a distance when said enemy soldier is armed with ranged weaponry, and it is still difficult to do even in melee range relative to how easy it is to wound with bayonets and combat knives.
- setquk 8y agoThey had swords that did that. Then they found out that guns had higher lethality with lower risk to the attacker (another primary metric). Collateral wasn't much of a problem back then. No one gave a shit.
- imtringued 8y agoWhat is a bullet if not a very carefully shaped rusty spoon stabbed into someone via a complicated launching mechanism?