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If you presume that police are prone to excessive use of force, then this is a way for police to abuse their power with even less risk to themselves. Ah yes, th
by unethical_ban 4y ago
If you presume that police are prone to excessive use of force, then this is a way for police to abuse their power with even less risk to themselves. Ah yes, those protestors are really troubling and we might get hit in the head with a rock if we are unlucky, so let's deploy the remote-cop to quell dissent.
- josephcsible 4y ago> we might get hit in the head with a rock Isn't the point of the robot to reduce how much they have to worry about this kind of thing, making it less likely they need to preemptively use violence?
- LightHugger 4y agothis doesn't seem to be how it works in practice. Weaponized remote control robots are already a thing in warfare (drones) and it seems to make murder way too easy.
- unethical_ban 4y agoTo be clear, the assertion is that cops do immoral violent things often enough that enabling them to be violently immoral more easily is a bad thing.