A decision-maker who risks nothing personally will wage war frivolously.

Evidence

A sovereign, given that he never places himself in danger in a war, “can thus decide on war, without any significant reason, as a kind of amusement” or hunting party. The war hunt may be defined not only by a particular kind of relationship with the enemy but also, at an earlier stage, by a mode of decision marked by the fact that the decider’s life is not at stake. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 576

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Externalizing war risks makes violence the default policy option; Accepted zero-risk killing would collapse just war theory

Related

• Risk-free warfare erodes the legal principles justifying the right to kill in war. (similarity 0.84)
• Externalizing war risks makes violence the default policy option (similarity 0.83)
• Accepted zero-risk killing would collapse just war theory (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Externalizing war risks makes violence the default policy option #corroborates (0.85)
• Accepted zero-risk killing would collapse just war theory #expands (0.60)