The next HBO/Spielberg/Hanks WW2 miniseries is a go...

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

Machines break. People don't.

The argument for drones is that people do indeed break, and suffer and die. A machine can withstand more g-force, and if it is lost it was only a machine.

I'm not saying I support that argument, just explaining it.

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

Oh, and here's an example of how one Australian soldier's humanity saved a life.

Of course people display humanity in the midst of war. It happens a lot. That doesn't change Skybird's point that war itself is about nothing more than killing and dying. Trust me, it's not fun at all.

In the words of William Tecumseh Sherman:
"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell."
-Address at Columbus, Ohio, April 11, 1880