“[excellent vagus nerve info elided]
I felt that way right before I got married and should have trusted it.(humor not intended)”
Heh, yeah quite a few of us have been there...
At any rate, I think not just these, but actual blinding weapons are of concern. Sure, they are banned by treaty - but some will ignore the treaty, and others will work the legal aspect. As long as the purpose isn’t “primarily” blinding, lasers are permitted on the battlefield, and are already in wide use including on crewed vehicles. Also systems can be pitched as “only temporarily dazzling the vision”...
The allure of blinding weapons is that a) they’re easily produced and deployed today b) they’re cheap and c) they would be very effective if employed, at least during the day. Many dangerous laser types don’t have a visible beam, but can still blind.
Read some of the worse accounts of cockpit laser illumination if you want to get a sense of how such weapons would affect people.
This weapon increases the emotional aspect of consciousness and decreases the logical aspect. It essentially creates Democrats.
Tom Clancy predicted this in Executive Orders(?), when Clark used a powerful light to bring down a Japanese plane.