Why the furor over drones? Even weaponized drones?

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40. The entire history of warfare is the history of weaponry evolving

People have waged war against each other for all of recorded history. THe earliest battles were waged essentially through hand to hand combat. Then bows and arrows evolved as a means of killing without being in arm's length of your enemy. Then firearms. Initially, you still had to be pretty much in direct view of your enemy and you could only fire one shot before reloading. But the capabilities of firearms improved in terms of accuracy, range, and firepower. Then of course armored vehicles replaced horses and wagons and aircraft became tools of war. And each of these tools of war continued to evolve as well. And artillery evolved into missiles -- surface to surface, surface to air, air to surface, and air to air.

Defensive tools also have evolved, including armaments, radar, interceptors. And improvements in medicine have made it possible for military personnel to survive injuries that would have been fatal in the past.

The one constant -- war still gets waged. One could argue that as war-making technology improves and gets less expensive, war will be waged more "easily" or frequently. But one could also argue that as one side gains a technological advantage over another side, some conflicts will be avoided, at least until the side lagging behind catching up.

Opposing the use of drones in military conflict makes about as much sense as complaining about any other advance in the technology of warfare (with the exception of nuclear warfare which presented change in the nature of weapons of mass destruction that truly was a difference in kind, rather than degree, over prior weapons.