Tear gas is considered humane to use your own people during peacetime, but inhumane to use on others during war.

posted by InnocentBystander on ShowerThoughts

It's routinely used for crowd control, personal defense, and non-lethal force by law enforcement.
But it's banned for warfare by the Geneva Conventions because it's inhumane..
Hmm..

It's routinely used for crowd control, personal defense, and non-lethal force by law enforcement. But it's banned for warfare by the Geneva Conventions because it's inhumane.. Hmm..

5 comments

[–] pembo210 2 points (+2|-0)

killing is supposed to be killing, not making them uncomfortable then dead. They'll stop using pepper spray on protesters when they're allowed to shoot us with guns again.

[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+1|-0)

this is a great thought. If you have another this logical It'd be super duper if you posted in s/commonsensecafeteria

[–] InnocentBystander [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

I'll keep it in mind for future thoughts. But this one was a bit silly, since there is a reasonable explanation. So I'm not sure if it would have fit there?

[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+1|-0)

hairy muff.. ahem... fair enough :D

[–] [Deleted] 0 points (+0|-0)

We have all these young strong military men just sitting around not being armed with billy clubs and not putting the hurt on protesters. Disgraceful.

Posted by InnocentBystander
Score: 9 (+9|-0)

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