Hello,
"murder is culture-dependent". Ah.
"... Where there is no human mind, there is no human conception of what "murder" is. ..."
1st There indeed is a human mind, and it clearly has a conception of what murder is. This "death from above" god like behaviour of remote-killing civilians is just that - murder. You can call this a "war" crime if you wish, fine.
2nd those generalized statements are coming out of the blue, and have no right or justification in itself, other than you just say it and declare it a universal truth or wisdom.
" ... Morally, peace needs to be judged by the moral categories of peacetime, and war needs to be judged by the moral qualities of wartime. ..."
Sounds reasonable, but it only sounds this way. Who says this, you ? Sun Tzu ? This is plain rubbish for justifying anything. There can only be one unversal "morale", otherwise warfare as such is pretty useless. You are enforcing your morale, will, thinking, common sense, way of life, onto others.
" ... It leads to the schizophrenic percpezion of how wars could be won without becoming inhumane and getting dirt on one's hands. ..."
But this is just what we see in the video - a new strategy that unfortunately creates odium. You do not get dirt on your hands, it is all far away. No need for infiltration, using real people spying, or gathering intelligence by going in and deal with real people. It is instant judgement from above killing electronic dots. It all becomes an ego shooter. Same is done with remotely-controlled drones, where the "pilot" finishes off a few sand ******s at his home bureau, and then goes down to dinner with his family. They call it war porn. How can one watch this and not be disgusted ?
Greetings,
Catfish
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