Re: [DIYbio] Fwd: PBS: Downloadable Gun Parts, Personalized Bioterror: the Downside of Innovation

Not to mention Israel's usage of white phosphorous, Korean armed sentry robots, Transnational ME insurgents' fondness for crowd-bombing, USA drone and torture programs, and Kenyan rape-as-weapon.

Armies kill. It's what they are trained to do. And because they are controlled by graduates of their own killing-training, as institutions they have a tendency toward utilitarian methods.

To worry about civilians is to miss the well-funded, legally untouchable killer elephant in the room.

Giovanni Lostumbo <giovanni.lostumbo@gmail.com> wrote:

>i think that's true, similar to the Convention on Cluster Munitions
>treaty
>(adopted in 2008) although Libya used cluster munitions when it went
>into
>"scorched earth" mode in 2011. Some countries tend to follow treaties,
>until they feel like they don't have to, or want. "Non-binding".
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi9hHDooAX4
>
>On Thursday, May 3, 2012 11:50:28 PM UTC-4, Nathan McCorkle wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Daniel C. <dcrookston@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> > The US military did a lot of research into chemical and biological
>> > weapons. Their conclusion was that biological weapons are too
>> > unreliable and/or ineffective to actually use. Granted, part of
>the
>> > military's requirements probably include the ability to control the
>
>> > affected population (a goal that a terrorist might not share) but I
>
>> > still think it's a good sign. If the US military can't make it
>work,
>> > the chance that a bioterrorist will have success seems pretty slim.
>
>> >
>>
>> I thought we don't have bioweapons because we agreed to some
>> international treaty(ies)
>>
>> --
>> Nathan McCorkle
>> Rochester Institute of Technology
>> College of Science, Biotechnology/Bioinformatics
>>
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