re: #176 publicityStunted

Too true - any excuse to kill “the other” will do :( On that thoroughly disturbing note, is there any possibility of something like this becoming reality at some point?

Back in the 80s I read a book called “A Higher Form of Killing” which is full of some of the most insane things humans have ever come up with. It reads like Alex Jones kook literature (the content, not the writing style), except that it was written by two non-kook authors - Jeremy Paxman and Robert Harris.

It details all manner of experiments in chem and bio warfare that really go a long way towards justifying negative feelings about human nature in general. One of the parts that stuck with Teenage Me as I read it was the research that went into developing methods to defeat gas masks. One of the things they came up with was a substance called chloropicrin. It causes violent nausea and vomiting. The idea being that you either barf into your gas mask and drown in your own spew, or you take off the mask to let the chunks out and then the mustard gas melts your lungs. People worked really hard to design this stuff, on purpose.

There’s also some material in the book having to do with the Pentagon commissioning feasibility studies to see if a bio agent could be designed that targeted people of specific genetic makeup (i.e. ethnicity).