Distant violence can become more graphic rather than more abstract
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 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Remote warfare will shift trauma study from victims to perpetrators; Distance killing is not morally less terrible than passionate violence — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 960; Distributed daily violence can exceed concentrated formal punishment in severity. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 1999 (+7 more)
Related
- Distance killing is not morally less terrible than passionate violence (similarity 0.92)
- Mechanized or desk-bound murder is not less terrible than passionate killing (similarity 0.91)
- Impersonal long-range killing is aseptic homicide rather than rational progress (similarity 0.83)
- Remote warfare will shift trauma study from victims to perpetrators (similarity 0.82)
- Great distance lets soldiers deny they are killing humans (similarity 0.80)
- Modern impersonal killing resembles a man stepping on cockroaches, not heroic combat (similarity 0.79)
- Drone killing is reduced to clicking on tiny on-screen figures (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Distance killing is not morally less terrible than passionate violence
#corroborates(0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 960