Re:Single-Click Double-Tap Murder
by mc32 on Saturday December 22, 2012 @01:11PM
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This concern would affect all combatants --it's not something which would only influence drone pilots, so this objection is beside the point
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Re:Single-Click Double-Tap Murder
by politician on Saturday December 22, 2012 @01:21PM
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The parent's premise that drone operators will act humanely because "the people on the screen are real" has been shown to be invalid.
Not at all. I said that there are already soldiers in the situation where their targets are lights on a screen, and they already treat the situation with the appropriate gravity. I claimed that drones wouldn't change that.
Milgram proves too much. It should prove those soldiers callous as well, and they are not. Heck, it should prove any soldier callous, and they certainly are not. As I explained above, soldiers have training the subjects in milgram didn't.