Quote from: Boboid on May 15, 2015, 01:24:43 AMQuote from: Jstank on May 14, 2015, 09:24:54 PM
can we not call them IED's and simply call them land mines. I don't want to feel like a terrorist.
They're not landmines. They're Improvised Explosive Devices.
They've existed for as long as humans have had access to explosives.
Trying to think of a good way to say this without being called an asshole for it..
If calling them "landmines" or even " Improvised Explosive Devices" is sufficient obfuscation to trick you into forgetting that you're blowing people up, you're not thinking about things in a complex manner.
This. Not to get all political, but using something mass produced to blow people up and using something cobbled together from what you can get your hands on are no different. If anything, surely having somewhere mass producing weapons that cannot distinguish between targets and civilians is more immoral.
At the end of the day, it's a game and IED is an accurate description of what they are.