The redefinition of bravery as psychic risk is an invented military virtue
Evidence
By shifting what is sacrificed from the physical plane to the mental, such a redefinition would make it possible to restore to drone operators their lost share of heroism. Purely psychic heroism is a tendentious invention of a new kind of military bravery or virtue. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 366
Categorization
- SEED: Article angle: how the heroic virtue discourse was retrofitted to justify remote killing — a case study in moral vocabulary being redesigned to fit technology.
- XREF: connects to: Drone operators are called brave for risking their psychic rather than physical lives; Rescue by calibrated enticement succeeds where threat and raw truth fail — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 3933; Martial virtues of courage and sacrifice functioned ideologically to justify butchery. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 345 (+3 more)
Related
- Drone operators are called brave for risking their psychic rather than physical lives (similarity 0.88)
- Martial virtues of courage and sacrifice functioned ideologically to justify butchery. (similarity 0.83)
- Killing with a graphic view is reframed as an act of courage (similarity 0.82)
- Preserving one’s own soldiers has become a quasi-absolute imperative excluding sacrifice. (similarity 0.81)
- Drones create a crisis in military ethos by contradicting traditional warrior values. (similarity 0.80)
- Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. (similarity 0.79)
- Drone morality inverts ethics to make unendangered killing good (similarity 0.78)