Well, unless you're an anti-vaxer then I suppose they are identical in multiple ways.
My two examples are meant to be alternative ways to describe the vaccine rollout but one with the intent removed and replaced with a sensationalized headline. You could describe getting vaccinated as being cut, it isn't entirely incorrect, it's just extremely misleading.
That said, the verb phrase "hunt down" is an important part of the "color" that, if you were describing it to a computer you'd leave out.
As someone who has spent time in a combat unit, I can't come up with tactical or strategic advantages that this would create, even if you fully set morality aside. There are so many easier ways to suppress dissent or eliminate survivors that worrying about weaponizing this particular technology is like worrying about dropping toilets out of bombers; yea, you can kill people that way, but it's so impractical you have to ask if anyone is really going to try.
I was asking this as a serious question, in case I was missing something. But I still don't see it. This feels like it's so specialized that it'd be a dead end for anyone trying to weaponize it.