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If you happen to work for one of the contractors in this program: I kindly ask you to think about your goals and your ideals for humanity. I used to work for a

If you happen to work for one of the contractors in this program: I kindly ask you to think about your goals and your ideals for humanity. I used to work for a sub-contractor to the military-industrial complex. I quit for ethical reasons. Never looked back. Thank you.

sebastianconcpt 12y ago
You did well
plug 12y ago
I applaud for doing that, and your request. Reading that article was horrifying. One one side, the banality of it all. On the other... I can't even imagine what it was like to experience that, and I think I am happier that I can't. The statement 'war is a game' has never been more true.
nakedrobot2 12y ago
THANK YOU. This is really all it takes. Unfortunately there are way too many people who will "feed their kids" by any means necessary.
iaskwhy 12y ago
Thank you. I'd like to have this subject discussed much more often than it is nowadays. Military is on an extreme of the ethical-unethical scale but there are many more cases which would deeply fall into the unethical side of the scale and are not being talked about at all.
- chinathrow 12y ago
  This. Like unethical research, unetically selling 0days to various gov/3letter agencies etc. etc.
cmdkeen 12y ago
In this program? Because that drone didn't fire a Hellfire, a human in a helicopter did. Hours were spent observing a suspicious target, far longer than would have happened in any previous conflict, and observed by people who are not "in country" and thus not under the same pressures. Clearly the system isn't perfect, and there appears to be a major professionalism problem within the operators of the drone fleet. But removing drones from the equation in this scenario would have resulted in the AC130 spotting the convoy and making a determination based on less time and less imagery.

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If you happen to work for one of the contractors in this program: I kindly ask you to think about your goals and your ideals for humanity. I used to work for a

by chinathrow 12y ago

sebastianconcpt 12y ago
You did well
plug 12y ago
I applaud for doing that, and your request. Reading that article was horrifying. One one side, the banality of it all. On the other... I can't even imagine what it was like to experience that, and I think I am happier that I can't. The statement 'war is a game' has never been more true.
nakedrobot2 12y ago
THANK YOU. This is really all it takes. Unfortunately there are way too many people who will "feed their kids" by any means necessary.
iaskwhy 12y ago
Thank you. I'd like to have this subject discussed much more often than it is nowadays. Military is on an extreme of the ethical-unethical scale but there are many more cases which would deeply fall into the unethical side of the scale and are not being talked about at all.
- chinathrow 12y ago
  This. Like unethical research, unetically selling 0days to various gov/3letter agencies etc. etc.
cmdkeen 12y ago
In this program? Because that drone didn't fire a Hellfire, a human in a helicopter did. Hours were spent observing a suspicious target, far longer than would have happened in any previous conflict, and observed by people who are not "in country" and thus not under the same pressures. Clearly the system isn't perfect, and there appears to be a major professionalism problem within the operators of the drone fleet. But removing drones from the equation in this scenario would have resulted in the AC130 spotting the convoy and making a determination based on less time and less imagery.