orca, you misunderstood. I expressed no preference for HE or Incendiary and I would agree that a bullet to the brain is more humane than a meat grinder but we were not talking about bullets and meat grinders or clean kill over messy kill.
A bullet may indeed kill instantly if it hits the brain. If OTOH is causes a debilitating wound with death from bleeding or later perhaps from gangrene you could not then argue that a bullet is a clean kill.
My point was that HE is by no means a clean kill any more than death by incendiary is necessarily messy. Both HE and Incendiary may achieve an instant kill but equally both may result in a prolonged and agonising death. Now do you see my point?
Last edited by Pontius Navigator; 9th Feb 2012 at 15:45.