Thursday, October 10, 2019

Why Remote War is Bad War

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614488/why-remote-war-is-bad-war/

Just one link today, and it's not one that's going to make you feel good. About anything.

The moral distance a society creates from the killing done in its name will increase the killing done in its name. We allow technology to increase moral distance; thus, technology increases the killing. More civilians than combatants die in modern warfare, so technology increases worldwide civilian murder at the hands of armies large and small.