Why are chemical weapons outlawed by the Geneva Conventions?
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1 painful death
2 mass death, instead of routing or capture the enemy battalion, you simply kill all of them. A bit overkill considering normally you kill 20% and capture the others.
3 it’s gonna kill civilians too and your own people too.
4 it is basically contact poison or acid. A near miss makes you blind and spitting blood for a week in enormous pain and you will never be able to run or work due to lung damage. Whoever wins will inherit thousand of cripples to take care of.
5 everyone left gonna have a super ptsd, including the winning side.
Read some ww1 books and you’ll see that.
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