[zedlopez]

After a bunch of number crunching, I noticed that for objects up to 8 lbs. across most of the human strength range, just saying "throwing an object does your thrust damage" is off by 2 or less. (Specifically, looking at Strengths 8-21 and objects of 2 oz., 4 oz., 8 oz., 1 lb., 2 lb., 4 lb., and 8 lb., the only points at which the divergence was more than 2 was at Strengths 19 and up throwing a 2 oz. object.)

Edit: There's an enormous honking error in the above -- I forgot how to read the table I made. It wasn't absolute weights of .125 lbs., .25 lbs, .5 lbs., etc., those were multipliers of Basic Lift. This makes "just use thrust damage" a not bad rule of thumb across a really wide range of weights, diverging by more than 2 from the exact result from the rules only for things < about 20 lbs. for people of Strengths 19-21.