Distance killing is not morally less terrible than passionate violence

Evidence

Beneath the “progress” of long-distance violence, we can now detect the barbarity of aseptic homicide. By now doubt is certainly cast upon the notion that mechanized murder and murder from behind a desk is less terrible than blood shed in passion. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 960

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Distant violence can become more graphic rather than more abstract; Impersonal long-range killing is aseptic homicide rather than rational progress; Mechanized or desk-bound murder is not less terrible than passionate killing (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Remote killing of humans drew less moral outrage than remote hunting of animals #corroborates (0.85) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 163
• Drone morality inverts ethics to make unendangered killing good #corroborates (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 453
• Extreme asymmetry in vulnerability transforms war into hunting or slaughter #corroborates (0.65) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 332