One of the favorite weapons of war of the 21st century has turned out to be weaponized unmanned aerial vehicles. With these automated aircraft, human operators can be tens of thousands of miles away watching from cameras onboard the plane. No human must be on the ground to verify what the operators think they see from the plane, which may be thousands of feet above.
As a result of imprecise data analysis by the drone operators, thousands of innocent civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Gaza, Ukraine and Russia have been slaughtered by the Hellfire missiles and other munitions triggered by the drone operators. Innocent civilians attending wedding parties and funeral gatherings have been massacred by drone pilots. Even those coming to aid victims of a first drone strike have been killed in what is called “double tap.”
War is a terrible art where the tools and weapons are precise but the weilder of the sword turns it upon the innocent. War is never declared entirely on the enemy, it is declared also upon those innocent civilians which it finds in its way. Your argument is on the nature of drones. There isn’t much unethical about the tool itself. It’s about being unable to hold its controllers accountable for the innocent deaths. The best way to do that is attacking the US military budget. Simple as that.
This is the way.
