Tear gas.
Just tear gas, and what it means. It’s a weaponized grief, it’s what people use on other people to quell riots — the idea, I think, that sadness trumps anger.
Gassing people wasn’t always benign, I’m thinking of mustard gas and the fumes that were caused skin to slough off after The Bomb, but then it’s not really all that benign. It is a weapon after all.
