You could always try something like 2000AD's 'Stupid gun' which scrambles the neurons in the brain causing a sharp and permanent drop in intelligence, which is one of the nastier ways to demoralize an opposing force
Graham
On Wednesday, 18 April 2018, 8:41:40 am AWST, Kelly St. Clair <xxxxxx@efn.org> wrote:
The original description/concept (biologically feasible or not) sounds like a "locked-in gun". Which would /definitely/ fall into the "go directly to warcrime, do not pass GO" category.