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If forced to, which Three Inventions would you Eliminate from Human History?

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Guns
Nerve gas
Nuclear bombs
Your inclusion of nerve gas reminded me of this famous poem written by a soldier who personally witnessed the effects that it had on those exposed to it.

DULCE ET DECORUM EST(1)
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares(2) we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest(3) began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots(4)
Of tired, outstripped(5) Five-Nines(6) that dropped behind.
Gas!(7) Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets(8) just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime(9) . . .
Dim, through the misty panes(10) and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering,(11) choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud(12)
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest(13)
To children ardent(14) for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.(15)

Wilfred Owen
Thought to have been written between 8 October 1917 and March, 1918
WILFRED OWEN - DULCE ET DECORUM EST, Text of poem and notes

The numbers are related to explanations provided for the terms used in the poem.
 
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West Germany abolished capital punishment in the 1940s, and I don't think East Germany used the guillotine as the mode of execution in the duration before they officially abolished it as well, so that's why it didn't make the short list of inventions I wish could be eliminated from human history. The electric chair has been used in my own lifetime in America, and I haven't left my teens yet. The reason it's troubling to me isn't due to the number of people it's been used on, but the fact that the sole reason it was invented was to execute. As I wrote above, nerve gas would be a more fitting choice for my list, but the difference is that it consists of organic chemicals that have been weaponized, rather than a device that was constructed by man.


DR. Guillotine proposed it because he considered it humane.

Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
(French pronunciation: [ɡijɔtɛ̃]; 28 May 1738 – 26 March 1814) was a French physician, politician and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out death penalties in France, as a less painful method of execution. While he did not invent the guillotine, and in fact opposed the death penalty, his name became an eponym for it. The actual inventor of the prototype was Antoine Louis.
 
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All I said was that Germany used to use the guillotine. You seem to be taking it as somehow defending burning people?
No, I never imagined that you were defending the burning of people alive since there is absolutely nothing whatsoever that you said which indicates that you support that hideous viewpoint.

Peace! :)
 
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1. Nuclear weapons.

2. Cell phones.

3. Snuggies.

Edit: I'm changing cars to just traffic because I actually love cars but hate other drivers.

Edit again: I just realized how much more I hate phones than even traffic!
 
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When they can communicate with each other, they hurt each other and others.

The first and only time I was inconvenience by a cell phone was while riding the Amtrak train and having to listen to three or four people jabbering loudly on their phones. I was also inconvenienced when my regular phone service suddenly stopped and I couldn't locate a public phone from which to call the company because I had no cell phone. I'm curious to know how people hurt each other and themselves.
 
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I'm curious to know how people hurt each other and themselves.
Look up how often cell phones are used and for what ,
the least harm of which is people WALKING running into things....
to the greatest harm: to set off bombs/ coordinate terror attacks/, track where you are all the time, etc

Some of the first ones to get cell phones back before you could see everyone with one, were the drug dealers, pimps, and
military or police or guerilla for 'not gentle' activities.

Later, already foretold in SCRIPTURE, part of the one world system,
already in planning, already being implemented...
 
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Hahaaaaa i MOSTLY agree with you...

especially about the first two you listed.

I'd have to add "TV".

:D
 
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