Unilateral drone killing makes the legal right to kill merely formal.

Evidence

It could perhaps be claimed that this mutual right remains. But it must also be agreed that the right is no longer any more than formally mutual. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 525

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Just-cause theorists grant only the just warrior the right to kill; The drone made warfare absolutely unilateral, killing without risk of being killed; Drone warfare leaves the mutual right to kill formally intact but substantively empty. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 525 (+8 more)

Related

• The drone made warfare absolutely unilateral, killing without risk of being killed (similarity 0.95)
• Drone warfare leaves the mutual right to kill formally intact but substantively empty. (similarity 0.95)
• Just-cause theorists grant only the just warrior the right to kill (similarity 0.91)
• Legal immunity for wartime killing presupposes that the right to kill is mutual. (similarity 0.89)
• Drone warfare creates a new configuration that is neither war nor peace (similarity 0.88)
• Unilateral drone warfare collapses war into a one-sided putting-to-death (similarity 0.88)
• Risk-free warfare erodes the legal principles justifying the right to kill in war. (similarity 0.87)
• Armed drones make killing a priori one-directional, converting combat into slaughter. (similarity 0.87)
• Drone warfare creates a new ethical-political norm neither war nor peace (similarity 0.87)
• The drone’s impossibility of capture deliberately converts kill into the only option (similarity 0.86)
• Radical protection from death transforms war into one-sided slaughter or hunting (similarity 0.85)
• Drone warfare establishes a norm neither war nor peace via imperial immunity (similarity 0.85)
• Accepted zero-risk killing would collapse just war theory (similarity 0.85)
• Drone-weaponized remote control radicalizes war into one-sided killing from safe zones (similarity 0.84)
• A legal hybrid of war and policing grants a global license to kill (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Risk-free warfare erodes the legal principles justifying the right to kill in war. #corroborates (0.75) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 128
• Unilateral drone warfare collapses war into a one-sided putting-to-death #expands (0.70)
• Drone morality inverts ethics to make unendangered killing good #expands (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 453
• Drone warfare establishes a norm neither war nor peace via imperial immunity #expands (0.55)
• Drone warfare creates a new ethical-political norm neither war nor peace #expands (0.55)
• The drone’s impossibility of capture deliberately converts kill into the only option #expands (0.50) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 544