Killing from a Safe Distance

Peter Olsthoorn
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Unmanned systems bring risk asymmetry in war to a new level, making martial virtues such as physical courage by and large obsolete. Nonetheless, the dominant view within the military is that using unmanned systems that remove the risks for military personnel involved is not very different from using aircrafts that drop bombs from a high altitude. According to others, however, the use of unmanned systems and the riskless killing they make possible do raise a host of new issues, for instance the question to what extent the willingness to take risks is part of the military profession. This article addresses that existential question, but also the question of whether the elimination of all risk would make the military profession a less moral one. To that end, it juxtaposes the military viewpoint that riskless killing by means of drones is morally uninteresting with the more critical viewthat such riskless killing is in fact highly problematic.
在安全距离外杀人
无人系统将战争中的风险不对称提升到一个新的水平,使身体勇气等军事美德基本上过时了。尽管如此,军方内部的主流观点是,使用消除军事人员风险的无人系统与使用从高空投掷炸弹的飞机没有太大区别。然而,另一些人认为,无人系统的使用及其使无风险杀戮成为可能,确实引发了一系列新问题,例如,承担风险的意愿在多大程度上是军事职业的一部分。本文讨论了这个存在问题,但也讨论了消除所有风险是否会使军事职业变得不那么道德的问题。为此,它将军方的观点(无人机无风险杀戮在道德上是无趣的)与更批判性的观点(这种无风险杀戮实际上是非常有问题的)并置在一起。
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