A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List'

Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by flexie on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:08AM (#17565852)

In the best of worlds, we could catch the bad guys in a net, put pink, fluffy handcuffs on them while we talk with them gently, get to know them and understand why they did what they did. Then we could hug, and we would become friends, and one day after a not too long stay in our beautiful, green and lounge-like prison resort, we would let them out in society again and they would become productive citizens.

In our world, we sometimes have to fight. Sometimes, it's better to kill the terrorists than to risk that they attack us or to risk our soldiers getting killed in an attempt of bringing them in.

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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by lghh on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:16AM (#17565916)

You're not just killing terrorists with drones though. You're killing innocent, wrongly suspected terrorists. You're killing their innocent families. You're killing their innocent neighbors. You're killing their innocent friends. All because you "suspect" one person in the room is a terrorist.

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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by jacquesm on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:19AM (#17565958)

And, not un-importantly, create a new generation of terrorists in the process.

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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by VBprogrammer on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:34AM (#17566092)

I think the exponenciality of the growth there shouldn't underestimated. Kill one innocent person; disillusion dozens of people.

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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by phyller on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:27AM (#17566585)

Or hundreds, or even thousands

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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by StavrosK on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:18AM (#17565952)

> In the best of worlds, we could catch the bad guys

In the best of worlds, people would understand there's no such clear thing as "bad guys". Drone strikes kill defenseless civilians every day. Who is the bad guy to the father whose ten year old daughter was killed by a drone?

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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by krageon on Thursday July 19, 2018 @11:05AM (#17566957)

It's your world. You're the person advocating infinitely escalating violence, which has landed us with "Bin Laden did a bad thing" and the US responding by basically becoming a million times worse. If you're thinking "well this is just what they're asking for", you'd be partially right. And if that doesn't terrify you, we have no business talking.

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