The drone exemplifies the moral hazard of acting without bearing costs

Evidence

The main effect is to introduce a massive bias into his decision. Any agent who can take action with fewer risks to himself or his camp is likely to adopt a riskier pattern of behavior—that is to say, riskier for others. Similarly, the drone is a classic “moral hazard”—a situation in which being able to act without bearing the costs of the consequences relieves agents of responsibility for their decisions. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 588 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The drone is a classic moral hazard example; Drones lower political, economic, and ethical costs of war; Low cost of drone warfare removes congressional restraint on military action (+7 more)

Related

• The drone is a classic moral hazard example (similarity 0.97)
• Drones create a moral hazard that shifts risk onto others. (similarity 0.95)
• Drones lower political, economic, and ethical costs of war (similarity 0.92)
• Low cost of drone warfare removes congressional restraint on military action (similarity 0.89)
• Drone use lowers the threshold so violence becomes the default foreign policy option. (similarity 0.87)
• Drones fuse killing and caring into an integrated humilitarian power (similarity 0.86)
• Drones are morally justified by preventing one’s own casualties (similarity 0.86)
• Risk-free drone operators morally resemble assassins, not soldiers (similarity 0.86)
• The discourse of ethical drones strategically lowers the cost of using them. (similarity 0.85)
• Drone morality inverts ethics to make unendangered killing good (similarity 0.85)
• Remote killing free from retaliation creates a moral hazard problem (similarity 0.84)
• Drone warfare adopts assassination ethics while refusing assassination’s self-sacrifice (similarity 0.84)
• Drones’ necroethics embody a nationalism of self-preservation (similarity 0.84)
• Drone advocates came to believe their own claims of negligible collateral damage. (similarity 0.84)
• Drone design produces a strong moral buffering effect on operators (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Drones create a moral hazard that shifts risk onto others. #expands (0.85) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 588
• Drone warfare adopts assassination ethics while refusing assassination’s self-sacrifice #corroborates (0.55)