Drone technology erodes the soldier’s defining scorn of death.

Evidence

This citizenship of exposable lives has constituted an important—albeit not the sole—basis for a democratic critique of the power to wage war, not only in the institutional manner forecast by Kant, namely suffrage, but also as a vector of extraparliamentary mobilization in the antiwar movements of the twentieth century, However, the dronization of the armed forces, inasmuch as it reduces the military exposure of national lives to zero, tends to somewhat deactivate that critical attitude. It would nevertheless be a mistake to believe that an “aversion to losses” is the only possible motive and the cost/benefit calculation the only relevant rationality for the development of a critical voice in the face of state violence. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 575 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Drones create a crisis in military ethos by contradicting traditional warrior values. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 350; Drones deactivate democratic war critique by removing citizens’ exposure to death. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 575

Related

• Drones deactivate democratic war critique by removing citizens’ exposure to death. (similarity 0.94)
• Drone warfare deactivates the democratic critique rooted in exposable lives (similarity 0.90)
• The drone state aims to replace mobilized citizen bodies with mechanical agents. (similarity 0.89)
• Drones create a crisis in military ethos by contradicting traditional warrior values. (similarity 0.88)
• Drone assassination reframes war as social defense through preventive security measures (similarity 0.86)
• Combat indifference to killing spread to accept civilian deaths by mistake (similarity 0.85)
• Drones lower political, economic, and ethical costs of war (similarity 0.85)
• Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. (similarity 0.85)
• Drones’ necroethics embody a nationalism of self-preservation (similarity 0.84)
• Drone war turns strategic evaluation into disconnected body counts. (similarity 0.84)
• Armed drones make killing a priori one-directional, converting combat into slaughter. (similarity 0.84)
• The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. (similarity 0.83)
• Protecting national lives through drones increases their social precariousness. (similarity 0.83)
• Faceless blurry drone imagery reduces moral resistance to killing (similarity 0.83)
• Drone use lowers the threshold so violence becomes the default foreign policy option. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Drones deactivate democratic war critique by removing citizens’ exposure to death. #expands (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 575