• dumdum666@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    There is not a single sentence in that article that claims that white phosphorus is used as a weapon. It is used for smokescreens and to mark areas in a war.

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      1 year ago

      It isn’t supposed to be used in densely populated areas because its extremely dangerous. Even if it wasn’t intentionally used as a weapon (which it very obviously was), then its still not excusable because it still causes a lot of harm to civilians.

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      1 year ago

      How the fuck are you so god damn stupid that you either aren’t aware or don’t understand there are secondary effects to the use of White Phosphorus? Saying it isn’t being used primarily as a weapon is a sloppy justification for the use of chemical weapons by an organized military that is 1000% aware of the horrific effects of using White Phosphorous where there can obviously be spill over into civilian areas.

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      1 year ago

      Really living up to the username there.

      I have a chisel. It is used for shaping wood. If I stab people with it, it is now a weapon. You can’t say “it’s not a weapon, it’s meant for shaping wood” about the chisel that I used to stab people.

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      1 year ago

      I could throw a granade right into the town square and tell the cops I was just trying to mark the area. You can choose to believe that I guess but it’s a pretty obvious lie since there are methods to mark things that are infinitely less deadly.

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      They could use something else, but WP is used as a “marker” for the places they will bomb with explosives, and in doing that, they’re still launching WP at the thing they are trying to attack