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I can hardly be faulted for not having enough information to say if the prohibition will work on a longer time scale, and I even acknowledge this when I point out the risk that Syria's use may embolden others. I also fully admitted it did not have a perfect track record. So you are faulting my argument for issues I already acknowledged and addressed in the context of my claim: for a weapon that is cheap and easy to produce we have seen fairly little use of it.

Regardless of what comes after this, we can say that the prohibition worked reasonably well for at least 100 years. I'd certainly be happy if we got even 25 more years before fully autonomous lethal drones became common place, and a prohibition on such weapons could buy us so e time on the issue.