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Originally Posted by Superbelt
You want proof that DU is dangerous? Submit to a forced inhalation of a miligram of DU dust. If in your heart, you can't bring yourself to say you would do that, then goddamn it why continue to use/support the use of something that you can't bring yourself to put upon yourself. What we are doing is subjecting nations for the future of civilization unknown lifelong suffering.
*You* don't know what this stuff does. When it is sufficiently proven to you and the unbelieving world, what will your reaction be? Ooh, our bad, we didn't know. Sorry you have to live with that suffering now.
By then it's too late and your past damns you.
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Superbelt, that's hardly proof, now is it? My reluctance to inhale DU dust doesn't prove it's dangerous, it only proves that I *think* it's dangerous. (Or, it proves that people told me it's dangerous.)
A counter-example: in them olden days, people were very reluctant to sail too far from land, because they "knew" the earth was flat, and they'd fall off. It proves nothing.
Perhaps we should all follow your logic, and not do anything new, nor investigate new scientific breakthroughs - after all, you don't know what could happen. If something bad happens, you'd have to live with that suffering, and it's too late, and the past damns you, etc. Possible danger is hardly a reason not to do things. (Yes, I know this is about war, and war is supposedly different and nasty, and DU is different and nasty, etc. Well, fundamentally, there isn't a difference at all.)