Comment by 28304283409234 a day ago
> In contrast, an uninvolved civilian medical doctor buying a booby-trapped pager secondhand shouldn't be at significant risk,
The end result is still that innocents are walking around with a bomb planted in their pocket.
Farmers having to worry about mines in their fields is also something that I would consider to be a bad thing.
Do you consider it worse than conventional alternatives, such as artillery strikes, even if the latter is likely to result in a worse civilian casualty ratio?
Also, if booby traps aren't considered a legitimate tactic in a military conflict, why does noone complain when, say, Ukraine mines a field?
Booby traps and land mines are legally distinct (and, within land mines, anti-personnel and anti-vehicle land mines are distinct), but its also not the case that no one complains about the use of mines, booby-traps, etc., by both parties in the Russia-Ukraine War.
Wars often result in innocent farmers having mines in their fields (at least temporarily). How is this worse?