Drones fuse killing and caring into an integrated humilitarian power

Evidence

As Eyal Weizman has shown, this type of justification is essentially based on a logic of the lesser evil: “the essence of our humanitarian present, obsessed with the calculations and calibrations that seek to moderate, ever so slightly, the evils that it has largely caused itself.” He notes that Hannah Arendt too warned against this type of argument: “Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 463 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Drone warfare creates a new ethical-political norm neither war nor peace; Empathy discourse is repurposed to legitimize mechanized killing; Jus in bello norms applied to drones convert combat ethics into necroethics (+15 more)

Related

• Humanitarian drone justification rests on a logic of the lesser evil (similarity 0.92)
• 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)
• Jus in bello norms applied to drones convert combat ethics into necroethics (similarity 0.89)
• The lesser-evil logic measures morality against one’s own violence (similarity 0.88)
• Drones’ necroethics embody a nationalism of self-preservation (similarity 0.88)
• Drones lower political, economic, and ethical costs of war (similarity 0.87)
• Feigned empathy with victims legitimizes drone homicide publicly (similarity 0.87)
• Drone warfare fuses killing and caring into a single integrated gesture (similarity 0.86)
• The drone exemplifies the moral hazard of acting without bearing costs (similarity 0.86)
• Drones create a moral hazard that shifts risk onto others. (similarity 0.86)
• Empathy discourse is repurposed to legitimize mechanized killing (similarity 0.85)
• Drone advocates came to believe their own claims of negligible collateral damage. (similarity 0.85)
• The drone state aims to replace mobilized citizen bodies with mechanical agents. (similarity 0.85)
• Drone warfare creates a new ethical-political norm neither war nor peace (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Drone warfare adopts assassination ethics while refusing assassination’s self-sacrifice #corroborates (0.50)
• Humanitarian drone justification rests on a logic of the lesser evil #corroborates (0.50) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 463
• The drone exemplifies the moral hazard of acting without bearing costs #corroborates (0.50)
• Drones create a moral hazard that shifts risk onto others. #expands (0.45) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 588
• Drone design produces a strong moral buffering effect on operators #corroborates (0.40) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 407