Re:Fritz Haber: A Monster Who Fed the World
by neaden on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @11:52AM
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People were already shooting each other, blowing each other up, stabbing each other, wounding each other in the dirt to die of gangrene or other infections, setting each other on fire. On what basis do we condemn chemical weapons while ignoring all these other methods of death and pain?
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Re:Fritz Haber: A Monster Who Fed the World
by hrasyid on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @03:59PM
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This is a good philosophical question, but the answer the governments of major powers came up with is that to limit the atrocity there must be rules even in war. So people came up with mutually agreed conventions. It was agreed that violating these would be worse then killing "by the book". Germany was a party to the rule prohibiting chemical warfare: https://verdragenbank.overheid.nl/en/Verdrag/Details/002422