Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:49:48 -0400
From: "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
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Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Scalzi & Pipe
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

mark wrote:
> Mike B. wrote:
>> mark wrote:
>>  > There are very few hostage situations when you have phasers, and set
>>  > them to stun
>>
>> Same is true with flamethrowers, poison gas and nukes....except for the
>> "stun" part.
>
> Wrong. If you've got "stun", you don't mind stunning the hostages.

Never say, "Wrong" to someone who isn't.  They might use a flamethrower,
poison gas or a nuke on you.

You are making unwarranted assumptions about unwillingness to kill the
hostages, so your "Wrong" is wrong.

> mark "the others are more like horseshoes"

So were stun phasers on occasion.  For instance when they used the big
ship-mounted ones to blanket half an acre or so.

-- Mike B.
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