Re:Sundar Pichai: ‘Technology Doesn’t Solve Humanity’s Probl...
by babuskov on Thursday November 08, 2018 @02:24PM
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> Would you consider drones and smart bombs bad when the alternative is carpet bombing?
Weren't drones used to carefully select targets inside cities and other areas with civilians. I'm not sure carpet bombing is an alternative for those cases:
"Carpet bombing of cities, towns, villages, or other areas containing a concentration of civilians is considered a war crime[5] as of the 1977 Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions." - source Wikipedia entry for Carpet Bombing
Re:Sundar Pichai: ‘Technology Doesn’t Solve Humanity’s Probl...
by srtjstjsj on Thursday November 08, 2018 @03:41PM
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That's irrelevant. There is no world police to stop the US from carpet bombing, nor would the US tolerate drone strikes against the USA as somehow acceptable.
Weren't drones used to carefully select targets inside cities and other areas with civilians. I'm not sure carpet bombing is an alternative for those cases:
"Carpet bombing of cities, towns, villages, or other areas containing a concentration of civilians is considered a war crime[5] as of the 1977 Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions." - source Wikipedia entry for Carpet Bombing