Considering that someone completely unarmored is generally who the target would be nowadays, that's what I mean. Small but incapacitating as in wounds to the leg or Achilles tendon, or a hit in any of the major muscle groups, which would still mean you could WALK, true, but you'd probably be too dazed with pain to do much of anything. And yes, they probably WOULD finish you off; that only proves what I'm saying. I cite the evidence that A: there are plenty of ancient shuriken around in exhibitions and so forth, dating back to the heyday of ninjas, photos of which can be seen all over the internet, B: there are any number of sites that tell you how to THROW shuriken, arguing the fact that they were used in that fashion for some time, C: there is the aforementioned art of 'Shurikenjutso', which, I believe, is specifically a ninjitsu art, although I could be wrong, D: nothing I've read anywhere else on the internet says anything that I can recall about the shuriken NOT being one of the traidtional ninja weapons, and E: if they didn't use them, who did, may I ask? Name me another group that used them - I certainly can't think of any.