So then it is basically illegal to do anything that is impractical. Shooting someone with a .50 caliber at close range wouldn't be practical and there are other rounds better for the job. Whatever is best for its application can be claimed to be the only one that will achieve the desired outcome (proficiently).
Anywhere you can bomb you can also roll up on (at least with insurgents). That's capable of achieving the same outcome. But it has disadvantages, your own potential loss of life. So something does something with less disadvantages to you and that changes some elements of the outcome and therefore isn't illegal.
I'm just saying it's a silly law. Do anything you would do in war anyway, and everything else is illegal.
So then it is basically illegal to do anything that is impractical. Shooting someone with a .50 caliber at close range wouldn't be practical and there are other rounds better for the job. Whatever is best for its application can be claimed to be the only one that will achieve the desired outcome (proficiently).
Anywhere you can bomb you can also roll up on (at least with insurgents). That's capable of achieving the same outcome. But it has disadvantages, your own potential loss of life. So something does something with less disadvantages to you and that changes some elements of the outcome and therefore isn't illegal.
I'm just saying it's a silly law. Do anything you would do in war anyway, and everything else is illegal.
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