I hate people who treat them like some toys and fantasize about them. That makes me think they are in some sort of death cult. That they found socially acceptable way to love violence.

I would still get one for safety but it is a tool made for specifically one thing. To pierce the skin and rip through the inner organs of a person.

They can serve a good purpose but they are fundamentally grim tools of pain and suffering. They shouldn’t be celebrated and glorified in their own right, that is sick. They can be used to preserve something precious but at a price to pay.

  • Majorllama@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    I mean… Technically they were engineered from the ground up to send a small projectile as far as possible using a chemical reaction.

    It just so happens that humans are really sensitive to projectiles hitting them at high speed being made out of mostly water and mush.

    Also there are many far north towns all around the world where it’s almost mandatory to carry a high powered rifle with you at all times because polar bears will rip your arms off just for the hell of it.

    • meowgenau@programming.devEnglish
      21·
      6 hours ago

      You don’t know the first thing about requirements engineering. Technically, these assault rifles are primarily designed to kill/injure people, it’s 100% part of the stakeholder/requirements analysis in their systems engineering workflow.

      An airliner is not designed to fly through the air. It’s designed to transport people and charge from A to B within a given amount of time. Flying is just a means to achieve it.

        • meowgenau@programming.devEnglish
          11·
          4 hours ago

          *Technically* they were engineered from the ground up to send a small projectile as far as possible using a chemical reaction.

          I’m referring to this bit: they are not technically engineered to simply shoot a projectile. They are engineered for a specific purpose, which is to kill people. Your comment sounds like you want to downplay the role of requirements in the engineering process, like a lot of people here do.