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non-lethal, but it can burn your retina or even your shirt...

I thought developing weapons for maiming (which Blinding is) was considered Unethical and Bared by many international treaties...

No. You only get into trouble if your weapons are specifically designed to blind.

Eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Wea...

Blinding can't be the primary objective - so make sure your laser weapons are strong enough to burn a hole in your military target's head to abide by my non lawyer reading of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Certain_Conventi...

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