Drone targeting presumes guilt until innocence is proven posthumously.

Evidence

Beneath the mirages of militarized ethics and state lies, this is the assuredly humanitarian and ethical principle of drones: the targets are presumed guilty until they are proved innocent—which, however, can only be done posthumously. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 486

Categorization

• XREF: The inverted presumption of guilt is a dark mirror of the just-war presumption of innocence; speaks to the reader’s ‘twisted logic’ frame. — connects to: Most drone strikes target suspects whose identity is unknown at the moment of killing. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 211; Drone morality inverts ethics to make unendangered killing good — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 453; Drone targeting hinged on remote visual guesses about sex and combatant status

Related

• Drone targeting decisions rest on probabilistic inference from behavior rather than observed facts. (similarity 0.85)
• Armed drones make killing a priori one-directional, converting combat into slaughter. (similarity 0.83)
• Drone advocates came to believe their own claims of negligible collateral damage. (similarity 0.82)
• Drone targeting hinged on remote visual guesses about sex and combatant status (similarity 0.82)
• Drone technology severs visual discrimination from physical proximity to targets. (similarity 0.82)
• Preemptive drone strikes rest on fragile and therefore dangerous prediction claims. (similarity 0.81)
• Drones produce constant terror because targets never know when they are tracked. (similarity 0.81)
• Drone targeting echoes archaic wax-doll nailing practices (similarity 0.81)
• Drones are nondiscriminatory because excluding combat erases the combatant-noncombatant distinction. (similarity 0.81)
• Most drone strikes target suspects whose identity is unknown at the moment of killing. (similarity 0.80)
• The drone’s impossibility of capture deliberately converts kill into the only option (similarity 0.80)
• Faceless blurry drone imagery reduces moral resistance to killing (similarity 0.80)
• Drone war turns strategic evaluation into disconnected body counts. (similarity 0.80)
• Drone surveillance cannot reliably distinguish combatants from civilians (similarity 0.80)
• Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Drone morality inverts ethics to make unendangered killing good #expands (0.80) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 453
• Drone targeting hinged on remote visual guesses about sex and combatant status #complicates (0.55)