Re: Impending directed energy weapons.

From: Fred J. McCall (fmccall_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 08/02/04 

Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 04:53:46 GMT

Chuck Stewart <zapkitty@gmx.co.uk> wrote:

:On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 21:38:03 +0000, Robert J. Kolker wrote:
:
:> Robert Clark wrote:
:
:>> If all goes as planned, the chickens will be frozen in
:>> mid-cluck, their leg and wing muscles paralyzed by an electrical
:>> charge created by the beam, even as their heart and lungs function
:>> normally."
:>> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&ncid=753&e=1&u=/ap/20040801/ap_on_sc/directed_energy_weapons
:
:> A bullet is cheaper. Given me an old fashioned slug thrower each time,
:> every time.
:
:ObSF worldbuilding: Cheaper than a resulting lawsuit for using lethal
:force when a non-lethal alternative is available?

Oddly, the data seems to indicate that you are more likely to get sued
through the use of a NONLETHAL system, presumably because of
expectations about such systems.

In both the material and legal sense, it's cheaper to just shoot the
bastards. 

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                           -- Charles Pinckney
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