Mechanized or desk-bound murder is not less terrible than passionate killing

Evidence

Beneath the “progress” of long-distance violence, we can now detect the barbarity of aseptic homicide. By now doubt is certainly cast upon the notion that mechanized murder and murder from behind a desk is less terrible than blood shed in passion. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 960 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Distance killing is not morally less terrible than passionate violence — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 960; Impersonal long-range killing is aseptic homicide rather than rational progress

Related

• Distance killing is not morally less terrible than passionate violence (similarity 0.94)
• Distant violence can become more graphic rather than more abstract (similarity 0.91)
• Impersonal long-range killing is aseptic homicide rather than rational progress (similarity 0.88)
• Modern impersonal killing resembles a man stepping on cockroaches, not heroic combat (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Distance killing is not morally less terrible than passionate violence #corroborates (0.95) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 960
• Impersonal long-range killing is aseptic homicide rather than rational progress #expands (0.80)