Transparency demands can distract from the human reality of drone victims.

Evidence

Given the opacity of both the targeting criteria and the real results of the strikes, critics have tended to focus on a demand for transparency, with exact figures and precise information about procedures. The legal discussion drags on with technical quibbles from statisticians and forensics experts who, distracting public scrutiny from the human reality of the concrete effects of armed violence, further objectify and disembody the existence of the victims. In place of living human beings, we find only memoranda from jurists, columns of numbers, and ballistic analyses. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 489

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the reader’s own possible assumption that transparency/accountability is the remedy rather than stopping the killing. — connects to: Drone-strike victims want the killing to stop, not transparency and accountability. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 498

Related

• Drone-strike victims want the killing to stop, not transparency and accountability. (similarity 0.93)
• Drone war turns strategic evaluation into disconnected body counts. (similarity 0.80)
• Drones produce constant terror because targets never know when they are tracked. (similarity 0.80)
• Faceless blurry drone imagery reduces moral resistance to killing (similarity 0.79)
• Drone strikes depend on a network of remote invisible human observers (similarity 0.78)