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Kill/Stun philosophy

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
After reading a long debate about stunning rather than killing your enemy, as a Fed officer at least, i have to add something that should be taken into concideration.
What would happen if today's police and army units were forced to use phasers (non-lethal) for everything that might occur?

If I were a bank robber it would be much easier for me to risk an armed bank robbery, because i can't be killed. The worst case scenario would be being stunned and being put into custody.
If i were a dictator who plans to raid another country it would also be much easier for me because none of my soldiers would die in combat and my enemy needs a lot of forces and resources in order to take care of their prisoners.

So even if we had non-lethal weapons like phaser today, our governments would leave them to security services. Armies and police forces will always use deadly force against deadly force because of the above mentioned reasons.

Those NPC that must not be killed cannot be killed in this game. There will be missions later on that clearly show this.
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