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The Sawback Bayonet
The idea that causing more harm than you need to win a battle or engagement just strikes everyone as awful. In the early 19 hundred sawback bayonets, which arebasily like a serated nife that you would put on the end of your ina world war on era rifle,. Has the sames mechanism when you pull it out. Germany unilaterally pulled this from their forces because reportedly, british and french troops would basically torture and kill a german soldier they found with it. So sometimes thre's this perception that in order for arms controll to work, you need a formal treaty that's legally binding. And those can all help, they can buttress