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I can't tell if you're being ironic and describing rockets that could reach London in the hands of Hitler, or just completely missing the point.
by mseebach 13y ago
I can't tell if you're being ironic and describing rockets that could reach London in the hands of Hitler, or just completely missing the point.
- coldtea 13y agoThe point for me is that whoever uses drones is not that better than Hitler. And the fact that "ok, at least they kill fewer people" is not that conforting either. At least a full blown war has casualties from both sides, and pilots are not a boundless resource.
- mseebach 13y agoOK, so it's missing the point. Spectacularly. The peace dividend is about peaceful, civilian uses of technology developed in wartime: Rockets build to 'punish' random, civilian Londoners -> Civilian space program. Holocaust -> conclusive acceptance of the evils of racism. Drones built to track and kill baddies (and whoever happens to look like or stand near them from a few thousand feet) -> Amazon drone delivery, TacoCopter, Search & Rescue, ???.