There's another reason to not simply shoot asterods:
"So, you had one big target that you needed to nudge away. But you blew it up. Now you've got hundreds of small targets you need to nudge away. Great, just great..."
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
"So, you had one big target that you needed to nudge away. But you blew it up. Now you've got hundreds of small targets you need to nudge away. Great, just great..."
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012