If these reasonable people knew that, then why did you have to say this? It's the dog whistle that they need so that they'll behave as expected...
White phosphorous is a way to light up the night sky during warfare. Like all warfare, it is dangerous to human life even when that's not it's direct intent... people fall off cliffs and shit while fighting (or running from it). Their deaths are no less tragic for it.
But when crackpots start screaming "they're trying to make people stampede off cliffs to their deaths!", it shows you for the very unreasonable and quite likely mentally ill person that you are.
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If these reasonable people knew that, then why did you have to say this? It's the dog whistle that they need so that they'll behave as expected...
White phosphorous is a way to light up the night sky during warfare. Like all warfare, it is dangerous to human life even when that's not it's direct intent... people fall off cliffs and shit while fighting (or running from it). Their deaths are no less tragic for it.
But when crackpots start screaming "they're trying to make people stampede off cliffs to their deaths!", it shows you for the very unreasonable and quite likely mentally ill person that you are.