Precision of a strike says nothing about target discrimination

Evidence

The fact that your weapon enables you to destroy precisely whomever you wish does not mean that you are more capable of making out who is and who is not a legitimate target. The precision of the strike has no bearing on the pertinence of the targeting in the first place. That would be tantamount to saying that the guillotine, because of the precision of its blade—which, it is true, separates the head from the trunk with remarkable precision—makes it thereby better able to distinguish between the guilty and the innocent. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 474

Categorization

• SEED: A strong analytical frame for an essay on how technical precision gets rhetorically converted into ethical discrimination in weapons marketing.
• XREF: connects to: Weapon precision cannot improve the adequacy of target identification.; Firing accuracy does not reduce a strike’s impact radius — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 469

Related

• Weapon precision cannot improve the adequacy of target identification. (similarity 0.92)
• Firing accuracy does not reduce a strike’s impact radius (similarity 0.88)
• Proponents conflate firing accuracy with impact extent and target identification (similarity 0.87)
• Drones are less precise than rifles and grenades at discriminating targets. (similarity 0.84)
• The drone should be judged against equivalent tactical weapons, not older bombers (similarity 0.79)
• Drone surveillance cannot reliably distinguish combatants from civilians (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Firing accuracy does not reduce a strike’s impact radius #exemplifies (0.80) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 469