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It's really important that actual humans are sent to war and die because it's the o ly think that makes us hesitate to go to war. Otherwise your in Ray Bradbury
by LatteLazy 6y ago
It's really important that actual humans are sent to war and die because it's the o ly think that makes us hesitate to go to war. Otherwise your in Ray Bradbury's distopia where wars are just rich countries slaughtering people in poor ones with no sense of hesitation. That's what drones represent: not skynet but man's inhumanity to man. Imagine wars being like action movies, watch the assassination live, tonight at 9!
- Invictus0 6y agoPlaying devils advocate here: arguably our hesitation for war has contributed to horrible atrocities, such as the Rwandan genocide.
- LatteLazy 6y agoYeah, that's fair. I would hope the aim is always reducing bloodshed (by intervention in genocides and not in stable countries). I'm not sure how to actually achieve that...
- vidarh 6y agoThe philosopher Arne Næss once argued that cannibalism practiced by eating the fallen would be a moral good because it would serve as a strong incentive to limit war. The idea is the same - war should not be sanitized, because it removes pressure to constrain them. It's important that the cost of war is visceral to both sides.
- LatteLazy 6y agoSomeone once suggested that the nuclear launch codes should be implanted in a living human volunteer. If the president wanted to launch the missiles, he would have to killed the person in front of him before he could kill millions 10,000km away...