Precision weapons can act as chaotic ones by striking civilians downwind in time

Evidence

One man’s precision-guided missile is another man’s weapon of indiscriminate destruction. With depleted uranium, we’re not talking about rogue missiles that accidentally shred a marketplace or a wedding party. We’re talking about the triumphant, pinpoint strike that doubles as a chaotic weapon, a weapon that haphazardly strikes down civilians who, whether under some future tyranny or future democracy, just happen to live downwind in time. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 662

Categorization

• APHORISMS: ‘just happen to live downwind in time’ condenses the entire slow-violence thesis into an unforgettable phrase about temporal proximity.
• XREF: connects to: Precision warfare’s invisible toxic legacies make ‘humanitarian war’ rhetoric self-contradictory — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 612; Weapons’ means, not ends, determine the form of violent action. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 119; Precision-warfare rhetoric masks the long-term toxic deaths it causes — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 587

Broader Connections

• Precision-warfare rhetoric masks the long-term toxic deaths it causes #corroborates (0.85) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 587
• Precision warfare’s invisible toxic legacies make ‘humanitarian war’ rhetoric self-contradictory #expands (0.80) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 612
• Weapons’ means, not ends, determine the form of violent action. #exemplifies (0.75) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 119