Modern impersonal killing resembles a man stepping on cockroaches, not heroic combat

Evidence

When John Ulric Nef took up this theme at the end of World War II, his tone was far less confident: “Progress has purged actual warfare of much of the emotional anger which accompanied the struggles of olden times. Except among the infantry, killing has become so impersonal that the killer resembles a boy with a toy pistol, or a man in a bathroom stepping on cockroaches.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 959

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the reader’s interest in the art of killing and aseptic homicide. — connects to: Impersonal long-range killing is aseptic homicide rather than rational progress

Related

• Mechanized or desk-bound murder is not less terrible than passionate killing (similarity 0.82)
• Impersonal long-range killing is aseptic homicide rather than rational progress (similarity 0.81)
• Distant violence can become more graphic rather than more abstract (similarity 0.79)
• Distance killing is not morally less terrible than passionate violence (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Impersonal long-range killing is aseptic homicide rather than rational progress #corroborates (0.80)