> There's no risk of the mine uprooting itself and carrying itself into an urban civilian population center. And yet, landmines kill an estimated 15-20,000 civ

> There's no risk of the mine uprooting itself and carrying itself into an urban civilian population center. And yet, landmines kill an estimated 15-20,000 civilians each year. About one in five are children. All because someone decided to defend an area. You say this is “working as intended”, but—how can this be the intended result? Automatic weapon systems allow you to make decisions about who lives and dies, and they let you escape responsibility by making those deaths occur at a different time/place from when and where you caused those deaths. If you were defending an area with teammates and friends’ lives on the line, you might be a little less careful about how your decisions affect the lives of civilians—especially the civilian deaths are uncertain and distant.