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Ethics.

The invention of the chemically-propelled projectile weapon greatly increased the killing potential of soldiers wielding them. Destruction of human life became less of a skilled craft, requiring years of training with swords, bows, etc, to a mass-produced industry of destruction. The introduction of firearms allowed for a soldier to recieve only months of training with his respective weapon, and the only human element involved in the use of a gunpowder-based weapon is the aim of the individual soldier. The soldier simply points and pulls a trigger, and very soon, if his aim is right, a metal ball is successfully lodged in the innards of another soldier, incapacitating and commonly killing the target. The innovation of handheld, automatic weapons only served to increase this. Instead of having to stop and reload after each successive shot, a soldier needs only keep the trigger pulled down, and is required only to change his weapon's magazine after several dozen shots. If, for example, one disturbed, drugged-up child is given a fully automatic assault rifle and is set against a village full of unarmed civilians, the result is predictable. The wielder of the weapon will be able to shoot many successive targets in a short amount of time, which severally decreases the villagers chances of survival. If, for example, a single soldier wielding a single-shot, flintlock musket was set against a village full of irratable tribals, the soldier would be able to kill one or two of said tribals before he would be inevitably swarmed and clubbed to death. The slow rate of fire of the musket caused by the requirement to reload after each shot impedes the ability of a single person to mow down a large amount of targets. It simply can't be done with a muzzle-loading, single shot firearm, with a maximum rate of fire of 3-4 shots a minute. In the hands of an unskilled, untrained, drugged-up african, however, the potential implications are deadly, thus irrefutably disproving string theory.