[x86_64Ubuntu]

But we can stop using drones to kill people, we choose not to. Instead, we see drones as a measure to lower the operational cost of killing people allowing us to kill people simply because they are there.

[jcims]

Some people need killed. Another way to look at this is improving the efficiency and accuracy of that process.

[x86_64Ubuntu]

And that's the problem, there is always the Western idea that someone far away must absolutely be killed. And magically, when that person is killed, someone else pops up in their place who needs to be killed even more than the first guy.

[vlads]

If you think that that's a uniquely Western idea, then I have a bridge to sell you.

[x86_64Ubuntu]

No one said it's uniquely Western.

[vlads]

If it's not a uniquely Western idea, why write "...there is always the Western idea that..."?

[throwaway316943]

Remember that when the first bus gets blown up by one of these.

[x86_64Ubuntu]

It's efficient collateral reducing killing of people who "need to be killed" when it's the West doing it, but uncivilized brutish terrorism when the Other does it.