I’m not constructing a straw-anything, just carrying your own comments out to their logical conclusion. Surely your comment didn’t reach the inanity of “well, it’s OK to make it, but nobody should get excited about it,” right? Because that would be worse than stupid.
No, they're not logical. The weapon is already here. That's why it's a straw man.
Surely your comment didn’t reach the inanity of “well, it’s OK to make it, but nobody should get excited about it,” right?
No, it went straight to the crux, which is that we face a tyrannical police state armed with these weapons and MUST devise strategy to be able to deter it or lose our freedom for ourselves and our children or die in futility fighting it. I don't find either prospect attractive. It is entirely logical, nor am I the only FReeper who saw that on this thread. Apparently it eluded you, which is illogical given the reality of those in power.
That such would not occur to you is indication of an obsession with an enemy that has blinded you to an even greater hazard. I'd say you took the bait.