in ww2, flamethrower operators/tank crews, and sometimes snipers were tortured to death out of a weird placed sense of 'fairness', as if bullets become unfair over a certain range, or shooting someone in the stomach for a slow, lingering death is all nice and jolly. war's hypocrisy anon, when you realise that and stop caring it's easier.  cluster munitions are incredibly effective, for example, as they cause multiple pressure waves in an area as well as shrapnel, you just have that around 9% failure rate per submunition so they stick around for years. the more we try to civilise war, worse it gets.
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