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Re:Drones may have attacked humans fully autonomously for th... by indigochill on Monday May 31, 2021 @02:00AM (#27340676)
The "hardwareification" is also troubling. When there is no human cost for one side to wage war, it becomes a lot more politically palatable because you no longer have family members coming home in boxes.

It's easy to say "Well, the other side are bad dudes who have it coming", but even if they are genuinely bad dudes (and not just politically inconvenient) there's no war without collateral damage (a term invented by the US during Vietnam, when they were doing a lot of it).

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Re:Drones may have attacked humans fully autonomously for th... by IQunder130 on Monday May 31, 2021 @10:13AM (#27344286)
Vietnam was not special because of the amount of collateral damage done but rather due to some serious strides being made towards avoiding or minimizing it for the first time. Let's not forget that in Korea levelling every city north of the front line was deemed an acceptable strategy.
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