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Only for the country employing them... What if the Americans will have "freedom robots" who will "liberate" those poor middle eastern countries, who will never

Only for the country employing them... What if the Americans will have "freedom robots" who will "liberate" those poor middle eastern countries, who will never be able to afford something like that? Will there still be a reason to back down when there are no American soldier's lifes at stake?

sp332 12y ago
Only for the country employing them... That still counts. Will there still be a reason to back down when there are no American soldiers' lives at stake? Yes. It's not like the Americans' decision-makers' lives have been on the line in this war anyway.
- tokenizerrr 12y ago
  > It's not like the Americans' decision-makers' lives have been on the line in this war anyway. Right, they're not. They do still have to convince their people and the families of their soldiers that it wasn't an absolute waste of life to send the soldiers into death. There will be no such concerns with robots, because hey, who cares? It's just a small % of funding.
dankohn1 12y ago
Check out the occupation of Tehran in the first 10 minutes of the new Robocop movie.
jimmaswell 12y ago
>Only for the country employing them... So? >What if the Americans will have "freedom robots" who will "liberate" those poor middle eastern countries, who will never be able to afford something like that? If that's what's going to be done anyway, better to use robots for it than humans >Will there still be a reason to back down when there are no American soldier's lifes at stake? Even if the presence of robots instead of humans results in more combat occurring, it'd still probably save more lives than if the robots hadn't been invented. And I'll admit that I just might care more about American soldiers' well-being than that of whoever they fight against.
- naturalethic 12y ago
  There's a somewhat popular novel that deals with this called The Forever War.

sp332 12y ago

Only for the country employing them... That still counts. Will there still be a reason to back down when there are no American soldiers' lives at stake? Yes. It's not like the Americans' decision-makers' lives have been on the line in this war anyway.

tokenizerrr 12y ago
> It's not like the Americans' decision-makers' lives have been on the line in this war anyway. Right, they're not. They do still have to convince their people and the families of their soldiers that it wasn't an absolute waste of life to send the soldiers into death. There will be no such concerns with robots, because hey, who cares? It's just a small % of funding.

dankohn1 12y ago

Check out the occupation of Tehran in the first 10 minutes of the new Robocop movie.

jimmaswell 12y ago

>Only for the country employing them... So? >What if the Americans will have "freedom robots" who will "liberate" those poor middle eastern countries, who will never be able to afford something like that? If that's what's going to be done anyway, better to use robots for it than humans >Will there still be a reason to back down when there are no American soldier's lifes at stake? Even if the presence of robots instead of humans results in more combat occurring, it'd still probably save more lives than if the robots hadn't been invented. And I'll admit that I just might care more about American soldiers' well-being than that of whoever they fight against.

naturalethic 12y ago
There's a somewhat popular novel that deals with this called The Forever War.