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Ahh CS and CN gas aka tear gas that is regularly used by police against protestors even in Europe. In Germany you have to be older than 14 to buy some: https://www.alltags-experte.de/reizgas.html

I mean it is a chemical weapon, but so is gunpowder, dynamite and TNT or the lead in the bullets. On a scale of 1(pepper spray) to 10(certain, gruesome death, close to torture) these tear gases are at most a 2. The thing is that after this 2 there is a void in the scale and the next thing is already a 7. So throwing them into the chemical weapons classification just undermines the actual terrible thing that they usually are.

Yeah the russia war is really bad, but do we really have to write headlines making it sound terrible that they use tear gas? Here comes the whataboutism: What do we do against police forces who use tear gas? Or when we so strongly condemn the russian tear gas (“chemical weapon”) then its only logical that we sanction the shit out of countries who manufacture and use scale 7+ chemical weapons right? Like white phosphorous being made into shells in the USA, send to Israel, signed by Nikki Haley (Republican aka Nazi party of the USA) and then thrown at starving children in Gaza. Oh no thats called “right to exist and defend themselves”. The hypocrisy is stunning.

I am late GenZ, we used to drink all day, every day from pumps on playgrounds and parks that were just unfiltered well water. Until they shut them down one by one. This was not a GenZ idea, this were Boomers and GenX trying to line their pockets with the “savings” these measures had.

Legends say that Boomers and GenX then complain about children not playing outside anymore.

If you blame GenZ or Alpha for how they have grown up in the society and environment you left them with it just reeks of the signature Boomer mentality to fuck everything up for everything but themselves and then blaming everyone else.