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I thought using lasers to blind people was a war crime.
by ganzuul 7y ago
I thought using lasers to blind people was a war crime.
- wahern 7y agoApparently that didn't come into effect until 1998, and wasn't even proposed until 1986: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Weapons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Wea... The Falklands War was in 1982. Though maybe general principles would reject any weapon principally designed to maim? That leaves a lot of grey area so understandable that it might need to be spelled out explicitly.