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Re:Confessions of a Drone Warrior by agumonkey on Saturday October 26, 2013 @06:16PM (#6619665)
I found the delocalization of killing a pretty big difference. I think most of war is justified by the fact that you're risking your life on site, a distorded 'kill or get killed' excusing the its absurdity, the emotional rush of surviving makes the act acceptable for some time. On the other hand, sitting comfy at home and triggering death is a pretty dissonant concept that makes people rethink being at war. Often veterans run away from war, with time they concluded about its nonsense, here people experience this right away.
Re:Confessions of a Drone Warrior by PeterisP on Saturday October 26, 2013 @08:12PM (#6620058)
War isn't justified by the fact that you're risking your life on site.

At its core, war starts with a society or their leaders deciding that yes, they want a goal X achieved even it will require dying and killing of innocent people, and that X is more important than their lives. If the decision is made, then it doesn't really matter how the killing is executed - the main moral issue is the choice of starting a war.