The Moral Case for Drones

[Robb]

50. Perfectly sound argument. However it requires grading morality on a curve.

If things are only "moral" or "immoral," the argument falls apart. Hence the unpopularity of the notion on DU, where we have the luxury of black-and-white thinking.

Under the grim rubric of global conflict, it makes a great deal of sense and is perhaps some salve to the players. But the public generally -- and DU specifically -- are less interested in measures that slow horror, and vastly prefer envisioning some fanciful end to it.

The wounded Marine is bleeding out; the medic drops to his knees and digs into the bloody body, clamping off bleeding with slippery hemostats and dousing everything with clotting agent. He knows he must do this before any healing can possibly take place -- and he knows it just as likely won't help, but he's doing it anyhow.

Alternately, we stand before the dying man, bend to his ear and scream "GET BETTER!!"