Killing with a graphic view is reframed as an act of courage

Evidence

It takes courage to be an assassin. At any rate, the idea is that killing involves a kind of bravery, particularly when one has a graphic view of its effects. One has to make an effort to force oneself to overcome one’s original repugnance at doing it and seeing it and, perhaps above all, seeing oneself doing it. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 362

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Martial virtues of courage and sacrifice functioned ideologically to justify butchery. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 345; Empathy discourse is repurposed to legitimize mechanized killing; Faceless blurry drone imagery reduces moral resistance to killing — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 404 (+2 more)

Related

• Martial virtues of courage and sacrifice functioned ideologically to justify butchery. (similarity 0.87)
• Faceless blurry drone imagery reduces moral resistance to killing (similarity 0.84)
• Drone killing is reduced to clicking on tiny on-screen figures (similarity 0.82)
• The redefinition of bravery as psychic risk is an invented military virtue (similarity 0.82)
• Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. (similarity 0.80)
• Modern artillery made killing morally irrelevant by severing aim from effect (similarity 0.79)
• Drone operators are called brave for risking their psychic rather than physical lives (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The redefinition of bravery as psychic risk is an invented military virtue #expands (0.80) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 366
• Empathy discourse is repurposed to legitimize mechanized killing #corroborates (0.55)
• Faceless blurry drone imagery reduces moral resistance to killing #complicates (0.40) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 404