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You are right, take our fellow man out of the equation, and it all feels very different, regardless off the reasons/excuses given. This is also helps explain w
by alan_cx 13y ago
You are right, take our fellow man out of the equation, and it all feels very different, regardless off the reasons/excuses given.
This is also helps explain why drone attacks (missiles too) to kill terrorists, and so on, are so hated and seen as cowardly. If such people are killed like Bin Laden was, then that feels more acceptable than a drone strike, because in that sort of scenario, there is a man on man thing. There is a sort of honor to it.
I personally very much dislike US incursion in to foreign countries to kill people. However, when OBL was killed, I did think, well at least men on the ground got their hand dirty and took personal risk to do it. Much more honor to that than some drone jockey sitting safely in a bunker thousands of miles away risking nothing what so ever, like a kid playing some console game.
Something else. Many find it more irritating to be caught speeding by a speed camera than a police man in a police car. Similar sort of thing.
Bottom line: electronics, robots and automated system are superior to us, which is why they are used. Very simply, it is not fair. There is no sporting chance for us second rate humans.