The principle of unnecessary risk makes drone use morally obligatory

Evidence

His thesis is based on what he calls the “principle of unnecessary risk,” according to which it is “wrong to command someone to take on unnecessary potentially lethal risk.” His reasoning runs as follows: “I argue that we have a duty to protect an agent engaged in a justified act from harm to the greatest extent possible, so long as that protection does not interfere with the agent’s ability to act justly. UAVs afford precisely such protection. Therefore, we are obligated to employ UAV weapon systems if it can be shown that their use does not significantly reduce a warfighter’s operational capacity.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 455

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Strawser’s ‘principle of unnecessary risk’ and how it yields an obligation to deploy drones.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 455
• XREF: connects to: Drones are morally justified by preventing one’s own casualties; Drone morality inverts ethics to make unendangered killing good — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 453

Related

• Drones are morally justified by preventing one’s own casualties (similarity 0.88)
• Drone morality inverts ethics to make unendangered killing good (similarity 0.82)
• The drone exemplifies the moral hazard of acting without bearing costs (similarity 0.81)
• Risk-free drone operators morally resemble assassins, not soldiers (similarity 0.81)
• Drones create a moral hazard that shifts risk onto others. (similarity 0.81)
• The drone is a classic moral hazard example (similarity 0.81)
• Humanitarian drone justification rests on a logic of the lesser evil (similarity 0.81)
• Drone warfare adopts assassination ethics while refusing assassination’s self-sacrifice (similarity 0.80)
• Drone advocates came to believe their own claims of negligible collateral damage. (similarity 0.80)
• Drones’ necroethics embody a nationalism of self-preservation (similarity 0.79)
• Drone use lowers the threshold so violence becomes the default foreign policy option. (similarity 0.79)
• The drone state aims to replace mobilized citizen bodies with mechanical agents. (similarity 0.79)
• The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. (similarity 0.79)
• Drone operators are called brave for risking their psychic rather than physical lives (similarity 0.79)
• The discourse of ethical drones strategically lowers the cost of using them. (similarity 0.78)