Examples of using Non-lethal weapons in English and their translations into German
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Non-lethal weapons are very serious business.
Stephen Coleman: The moral dangers of non-lethal weapons.
Of non-lethal weapons we could give military personnel.
I'm talking about military uses of non-lethal weapons.
When non-lethal weapons have been introduced in Australia.
There is no effective legislation governing non-lethal weapons.
Is that non-lethal weapons may be used indiscriminately.
Some of these uses include communication, non-lethal weapons and high-energy lasers.
Non-lethal weapons might actually be used, not as an alternative to lethal force.
But if you have got police firing tear gas, it is very easy to say,'Well,we are using non-lethal weapons.
Nolweps are non-lethal weapons used for crowd control and peacekeeping.
But I would remind you what I'm talking about,I'm talking about military uses of non-lethal weapons.
So if they had non-lethal weapons then they would say,"Well we can use them in that sort of situation.
And other examples of the same sorts of things with other people where you think where youthink,"Is this really an appropriate way to use non-lethal weapons?
Non-lethal weapons should, therefore, not be regarded as separate from a lethal system but rather as a component thereof.
Now there's a whole range of different sorts of non-lethal weapons, some of which are obviously available now, some of which they're developing.
Non-lethal weapons must not be used as an instrument of political interference and dominance of the northern over the southern countries.
For self-defence in emergency situations: The trade show includes suppliers of warning shot,gas and signal guns and non-lethal weapons and self-defence sprays.
So I think, yes, there may be ways that non-lethal weapons are going to be great in these situations, but there's also a whole heap of problems that need to be considered as well.
And of course, being Australian, I started looking at stuff in Australia, knowing, again,from my own experience about various times when non-lethal weapons have been introduced in Australia.
Non-lethal weapons can also be used against a country's infrastructure and authorities, bring the railway system to a standstill or cause chaos in a country's financial world.
Another problem that I just want to quickly mention is that there's a whole heap of problems with the way thatpeople actually get taught to use non-lethal weapons and get trained about them and then get tested and so on.
Osa is a non-lethal weapons system that includes a four- or two-cartridge break-action barrel-less pistol and a broad selection of special cartridges with an aluminum case and electrical pulse firing.
So I actually started to investigate some of those issues and have a look at the way that police use non-lethal weapons when they're introduced and some of the problems that might arise out of those sorts of things when they actually do introduce them.
So one of theproblems that's been suggested with non-lethal weapons is that they might be used indiscriminately-- that you use them against a whole range of people because you don't have to worry so much anymore.
And so the suggestion is, well hey, if we're going to send robots out and allow them to do this, maybe it would be a good idea, again,with these things if they were armed with non-lethal weapons so that if the robot makes a bad decision and shoots the wrong person, again, they haven't actually killed them.
So obviously there's a whole range of different sorts of non-lethal weapons we could give military personnel and there's a whole range of situations where they're looking a them and saying,"Hey, these things could be really useful.
Now one of the particular issues that comesup with military use of non-lethal weapons-- and people when they're actually saying,"Well hey, there might be some problems"-- there's a couple of particular problems that get focused on.
So again, they would say,"Well if we have access to non-lethal weapons, if we have got someone we know is hostile, we can do something to deal with them and know that if we hit anyone else around the place, at least, again, we're not going to kill them.
Pepper spray and tasers are in increasing use by both police and military,and more exotic non-lethal weapons such as heat rays are in the works. At TEDxCanberra, ethicist Stephen Coleman explores the unexpected consequences of their introduction and asks some challenging questions.
