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As if! A weapon usefulness is strictly determined by its success at achieving the wielder's objective. Perhaps you want to genocide a people over a couple gene
by thsksbd 3y ago
As if! A weapon usefulness is strictly determined by its success at achieving the wielder's objective.
Perhaps you want to genocide a people over a couple generations -> tailor a venereal disease.
Or maybe you want to make them "dumb" so their societies collapse -> weaponize Lyme
Or maybe you are an eco-terrorist and want to force ppl to stop eating meat -> spread tics with Alpha-gal syndrome.
The list of weapons being surprisingly effective (assault rifle) or a dud (dreadnought) is very long.
- serf 3y agoa weapon released without a means to target and control damage is generally less effective than one you can make sure isn't pointed at your feet. lyme disease 'immunity' is spotty at best, and not well correlated to a specific group of people or traits; so while I could imagine its' use as a weapon, it seems that from a military strategy point of view that there should be better options. there are plenty of diseases out there with what seems to be a racial component to immunology, I would imagine those are the ones with a lot of bio weapons interest towards them.