Military weapons and graphic warnings / by kevin murray

In the real world, things that we buy and consume that have any sort of inherent danger attached to them, whatsoever, carry warning labels that are often mandated by law, of which most of those warning labels have an excruciatingly long list of adverse consequences that could happen, if the particular product is used incorrectly, or overused, or misused, and so and so forth.  The point of these warnings is obviously to protect not only the intended recipient of the product but also to help serve as a warning to carefully protect the product from getting into the hands of the innocent and inept.  Of course, most of these warnings are written, though some may have little sketch figures attached, demonstrating in picture form, perhaps the danger of hi-voltage electricity, and then there are a very few products, such as cigarettes, being the prime example, in which certain countries make it their business to decree by law, rather graphic images of how damaging that smoking cigarettes can be to one's health, with the basic point of such an exercise being to help to reduce smoking in which it is believed that breaking the fantasy that, for instance, smoking is cool, or smoking is hip, with the replacement of a rather nasty graphic image that indicates that smoking is neither cool or hip.

 

The country that sells and manufactures the most military weapons in the world is the United States.  Not too surprisingly, a significant swath of these weapons, are weapons that are lethal, and deliberately lethal, that is to say, these weapons, such as virtually all armaments and all bombs, are purposely designed to destroy infrastructure, and/or to kill people.  In addition, the various companies that manufacture these weapons, are well aware of their intentional design destructiveness, for that is the very thing that they are selling to national and international defense agencies.  This means, that these companies, besides mandating safety internally when manufacturing such weapons and the controls that go with that safety, could, if they so desire, or could if they were mandated by law to do so, assign graphic warnings onto the shipping crates that contain such weapons, as well as placing in strategic areas throughout their facility, graphic warnings about the products that are produced there, in addition to, such graphic warnings could on certain weapon systems be attached to the actual weapon itself.

 

It is vitally important that those that make money in the killing business, which is essentially what all weapons are manufactured to do when boiled down to their true essence, be compelled by law, that for their annual stockholder reports, for their annual stockholder meetings, and for their public meetings of all sorts, be compelled to display proudly in graphic form, the obvious consequences of what happens to people when their weapons are used in the form that these weapons have been deliberately designed to accomplish.  While there isn't anything wrong, with military defense contractors talking up how vital that they are to the nation's defense, it isn't fair and it isn't truthful, for these same contractors, to not also stand behind what their product does to people in the real world, so that if pride is the immediate emotion that comes to mind when you realize the destructive awesomeness of your product, or the incisive accuracy of your weapons, it seems only fair and right, to also show the end result of those weapons as utilized in the most common and likely way that they are, which would include explicitly or implicitly what these weapons do to people, with graphic pictures taken from the real world, proudly posted, so that there wouldn't be any confusion about the actual nature of the business as conducted, which is really "blood for money".