• ozymandias117@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Yeah, just a thought experiment, because we do consider shrapnel ancillary in the case of a bullet…

    I’m not sure if a grenade is a direct or indirect hit

    Rockets are similar where we call it a “direct hit” but realistically it’s just blowing up a large enough area that the target happened to be in the vicinity…

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      6 days ago

      Can definitely pick this apart, reminds me of examining forces in secondary school during physics exams.

      My thinking on the original point is that shrapnel is never aimed, even if deliberate, as you say it’s just there, it comes alongside the attacking action.

      Then again, in the sense that shrapnel typically goes directly from one place to another, it’s pretty direct