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by Htsthbjig 4003 days ago
"However ethics teaches us that you are wrong."

Well, there is nothing ethical about war. People in horses killed easily those not in horses. Then people in horses were killed easily with artillery as it improved.

The same happened with ships, making boarding unnecessary.

You know what they said about tanks when they appeared: they were not ethical. Then planes made possible to shoot someone kilometers away with heavy artillery(that before planes could not see far away). Not ethical at all.

Then came air bombers, the nuclear bomb. Today the US kills 10.000 people in Iraq annually with air drones just pushing buttons thousands of miles away.

It is already happening on one side. The only difference is when the other side starts using it too. Then we will consider it unethical(after decades using it on others).

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When the machine gun was invented, Europeans congratulated themselves that they were the only ones with machine guns. After all, such a nasty weapon of mass death wouldn't be something that Europeans would ethically use on other Europeans.

That didn't last long.