As to the whole argument about Ryouga's BTK not working on
living things, I point you to RpM's excellent piece, 'The 
More Things Change' and its sequel, 'The Pursuit of Happiness'.
I'm not sure he'll want me to spoil the surprise for those
who haven't read it, so I'll keep mum and merely give the URL
for the story's site - suffice to say that those familiar with
it will probably agree when I say that RpM has come up with
a novel solution to this argument which answers all the questions
posed thus far. =)  TMTC can be found at

http://www.uh.edu/~rpm/tmtc/

He was also kind enough to let me use a variation of his idea in
my own story, VISION (part of the Ranma 2096 series), which is
at http://members.aol.com/willmore88/vision.txt

-CW


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Christopher Willmore      http://qlink.queensu.ca/~4cw6/2096a.htm
"Love is never completely directed at you, friendship is as 
precarious as life.  But hate never misses its mark, and it's as 
certain as death." -Simone de Beauvoir
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