Drones’ necroethics embody a nationalism of self-preservation

Evidence

On the face of it, the drone appears as the solution to the central contradiction of the discourse of protective sovereignty: wage war without endangering the lives of one’s own subjects, preserve without loss, always protect. But here comes the bad news: the promise to preserve national lives goes hand in hand with the increased social vulnerability and precariousness of many of those lives. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 607 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Jus in bello norms applied to drones convert combat ethics into necroethics; Drones are morally justified by preventing one’s own casualties; Drones fuse killing and caring into an integrated humilitarian power (+6 more)

Related

• Protecting national lives through drones increases their social precariousness. (similarity 0.92)
• Jus in bello norms applied to drones convert combat ethics into necroethics (similarity 0.91)
• Drone morality inverts ethics to make unendangered killing good (similarity 0.90)
• Drones are morally justified by preventing one’s own casualties (similarity 0.90)
• The drone state aims to replace mobilized citizen bodies with mechanical agents. (similarity 0.89)
• Drone assassination reframes war as social defense through preventive security measures (similarity 0.88)
• Drones fuse killing and caring into an integrated humilitarian power (similarity 0.88)
• Drones deactivate democratic war critique by removing citizens’ exposure to death. (similarity 0.87)
• Drone warfare deactivates the democratic critique rooted in exposable lives (similarity 0.87)
• Drones create a moral hazard that shifts risk onto others. (similarity 0.87)
• Drone warfare creates a new ethical-political norm neither war nor peace (similarity 0.86)
• Drone warfare establishes a norm neither war nor peace via imperial immunity (similarity 0.86)
• Drones lower political, economic, and ethical costs of war (similarity 0.86)
• Drones create a crisis in military ethos by contradicting traditional warrior values. (similarity 0.86)
• The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Protecting national lives through drones increases their social precariousness. #corroborates (0.65) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 607
• Drones fuse killing and caring into an integrated humilitarian power #expands (0.60)
• Drone warfare adopts assassination ethics while refusing assassination’s self-sacrifice #expands (0.60)
• Drone morality inverts ethics to make unendangered killing good #expands (0.55) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 453
• Drones deactivate democratic war critique by removing citizens’ exposure to death. #expands (0.50) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 575
• Risk-free drone operators morally resemble assassins, not soldiers #expands (0.50) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 509