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I think the real limiter is people willing and stable enough to murder indiscriminately at scale in novel ways. Mowing down crowds of people with a truck is biz
by Felz 7y ago
I think the real limiter is people willing and stable enough to murder indiscriminately at scale in novel ways. Mowing down crowds of people with a truck is bizarrely recent, and the peak of mass murder is still one guy sniping at a concert from a nearby hotel. Everyone was relatively surprised that passenger planes could be used as destructive weapons.
The really effective means of mass murder I think would be subtle, though, and mass murderers don't seem to do subtle. E.g. leaving some radioactive material in an innocuous public place, worsening visibility at crash prone intersections, subtle and slow poisons mixed into food and drink…
- ph0rque 7y agoDeath by obesity! Oh wait...
- tjr225 7y agoReally had to laugh out loud at this one. To point out the obvious and make my comment more substantive- this article is concerned about the type of murder that isn't happening, when corporations kill us off every day for money. Hello, freedom.
- lotu 7y agoOr maybe something like developing, manufacturing, and prompting a new pain pill, that gets millions of people addicted to opioids, thus ultimately resulting of millions of overdose death over a decade.