>True explosives (dynamite and all) was his thing... But on the moral side of things it's the same. Without getting into the morality of gun technology (since

>True explosives (dynamite and all) was his thing... But on the moral side of things it's the same. Without getting into the morality of gun technology (since the morality of a gun rather depends on whose hands you put it into), I'd say it's rather different because guns are used primarily as weapons whereas most of the world's explosives are used for peaceful purposes, in mining. Dyno Nobel is, to this day, one of the world's biggest suppliers of mining explosives.