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Loitering is the act of standing or waiting around idly without apparent purpose in some public places. [ 1 ] While the laws regarding loitering have been challenged and changed over time, loitering of suspect people can be illegal in some jurisdictions and some specific circumstances.
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Loitering munitions that are capable of making autonomous attack decisions (man out of the loop) raise moral, ethical, and international humanitarian law concerns because a human being is not involved in making the actual decision to attack and potentially kill humans, as is the case with fire-and-forget missiles in common use since the 1960s.
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Speakers outside of Walgreens on Pacific Avenue play Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, commonly referred to as Dracula’s song, to deter loitering, on Friday, May 17, 2024, in Tacoma, Wash.
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