> Would we be fine with the military killing the exact same people if the pilot was simply on the aircraft that launched the missiles or bombs? No. > If your

> Would we be fine with the military killing the exact same people if the pilot was simply on the aircraft that launched the missiles or bombs? No. > If your problem is with killing people, it should be with the people who ordered the killing and not the specific weapon that was used to carry out the killing. In the context of this discussion the problem would be with the weapons designers. That said, to imply drones are just like previous weapons is naive. The ethics of warfare change over time as the weapons used to wage it change. And death in war being even more abstracted away via drones (a process began with the first thrown rock and continued up through the carpet bombing of WWII and Vietnam) is certainly worth discussing. If nothin else drones raise the question of scale - they allow for a lot more targeted killings. Until the day war becomes an ugly memory we should all do as much as possible to examine and understand the forms of dehumanization it produces.