Why the furor over drones? Even weaponized drones?

[TheKentuckian]

47. How cheap, painless, secret, and widely proliferated does use of force need to be for you?

How few human souls do you want in the loop? How few chances do we really need to say no more?

Stop the war??? How do you know one is going but the dead and the grieving will know even if we are ignorant.

No sir, too little skin in the game for almost any hope of judicious usage over extended time. In fact the more the ignorant and un-inconvenienced the population is and the lower the economic cost with no eyes on the ball and no consequences the greater the chance of use and abuse.

Drones help elevate war and tyranny to the "why not?" phase of evolution. Good luck with that. The reason and the only reason we didn't have a nuclear war is obvious consequences and costs. The only reason wars end is because the cost become too high one way or the other.

Past that bottleneck is no even ground, the power will be abused. It is too damn easy and how would we put that toothpaste back in the tube? How do you fix a breakdown?

Time bomb. The price of setting it off are too close to zero not to blow it, it is simply a matter of how long and how autonomous the devices become before some fucker is going to get far enough from an arguable line to ever even see it again. These systems should be opposed in and of themselves not just the process the allows their use. I think they should be very tightly regulated that emerging uses would not be legally permissible at all, armed regarded the same as chemical weapons and use of nuclear.