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Arthur Besse to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 9 months ago

Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea

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Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea

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Arthur Besse to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 9 months ago
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  • @MyOpinion@lemm.ee
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    No kidding. Is this not some kind of war crime?

    • @hperrin@lemmy.world
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      Yes, indiscriminate bombing is a war crime.

      • @Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net
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        It seemed pretty discriminate to me

        • @MiltownClowns@lemmy.world
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          16•9 months ago

          So they killed those kids on purpose?

          • تحريرها كلها ممكن
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            7•9 months ago

            It is Israel

          • @Aria@lemmygrad.ml
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            3•9 months ago

            Yes.

      • JohnEdwa
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        Thought sabotaging enemy equipment to explode isn’t.
        Had this been a bunch of Russian or Wagner Group radio equipment exploding because they had been rigged by Ukraine, it wouldn’t be a war crime - combatants don’t stop being valid targets even if they are on leave and are at fault of endangering the civil population, possibly themselves causing a war crime by effectively using civilians as human shields in the process.

        • queermunist she/her
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          22•9 months ago

          Pagers are civilian objects, they’re categorically different from radio equipment because they can be used by civilians.

          Furthermore, these exploded in civilian structures among the civilian population. Pagers blew up inside people’s cars while driving down the highway. They blew up on grocery stores. They blew up children.

          It’s terrorism.

        • @PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world
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          A pager isn’t “enemy equipment” in the same way a missile or a gun is. There were literally cell phone stores exploding in Lebanon. A 9-year-old girl died. This is 100% a fucking war crime. If someone kills a member of your family do you get to booby-trap the stove in their house so the kids get their faces melted off?

        • @Aria@lemmygrad.ml
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          War crime speedrunners doing something shouldn’t make you think it isn’t illegal. Booby-traps are illegal. https://www.icrc.org/sites/default/files/external/doc/en/assets/files/other/icrc_002_0811.pdf

        • @technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          9 months ago

          Are we playing hypotheticals? What if zios start blowing up anti-genocide politicians in usa? War crime or no?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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      10•9 months ago

      In the second world war, guerrilla forces scattered large quantities of booby-trapped objects likely to be attractive to civilians. The idea was to cause widescale and indiscriminate death. The Japanese manufactured a tobacco pipe with a charge detonated by a spring-loaded striker. The Italians produced a headset that blew up when it was plugged in. More than half a century later, a global treaty came into force which “prohibited in all circumstances to use booby-traps or other devices in the form of apparently harmless portable objects that are specifically designed and constructed to contain explosive material”. Has anyone told Israel and its jubilant supporters that, as Brian Finucane of the International Crisis Group points out, it is a signatory to the protocol?

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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      4•9 months ago

      It should be if it isn’t.

    • @BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      3•9 months ago

      Is turning anything into a bomb a good idea?

  • @linearchaos@lemmy.world
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    7•9 months ago

    When I first read this, I was kind of hoping it was in shower thoughts.

    • @pastermil@sh.itjust.works
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      4•9 months ago

      It is a shower thought, just by a profilic tech celebrity.

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