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But we can stop using drones to kill people, we choose not to. Instead, we see drones as a measure to lower the operational cost of killing people allowing us
by x86_64Ubuntu 5y ago
But we can stop using drones to kill people, we choose not to. Instead, we see drones as a measure to lower the operational cost of killing people allowing us to kill people simply because they are there.
- jcims 5y agoSome people need killed. Another way to look at this is improving the efficiency and accuracy of that process.
- x86_64Ubuntu 5y agoAnd that's the problem, there is always the Western idea that someone far away must absolutely be killed. And magically, when that person is killed, someone else pops up in their place who needs to be killed even more than the first guy.
- vlads 5y agoIf you think that that's a uniquely Western idea, then I have a bridge to sell you.
- x86_64Ubuntu 5y agoNo one said it's uniquely Western.
- vlads 5y agoIf it's not a uniquely Western idea, why write "...there is always the Western idea that..."?
- throwaway316943 5y agoRemember that when the first bus gets blown up by one of these.
- x86_64Ubuntu 5y agoIt's efficient collateral reducing killing of people who "need to be killed" when it's the West doing it, but uncivilized brutish terrorism when the Other does it.