Opinion Editorial 4/17/19
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/op...un-debate-20190415-story.html#nt=oft13a-18gp1
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/op...un-debate-20190415-story.html#nt=oft13a-18gp1
Opinion Editorial 4/17/19
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/op...un-debate-20190415-story.html#nt=oft13a-18gp1
Just another person who wants to give power to a tool, rather than to the person who controls the tool.
I notice that Sun also has comments turned off.
Counterpoint: a society that refuses to incarcerate violent criminals begets violence. Can’t virtue signal your way to safety.
Which is it? Do these weapons force a personal disconnection, or are people still empathetic towards each other? Can't have both.Over time, the disconnection of those who kill from those who are killed has become magnified by weapons that separate each of those populations. Bows and arrows were replaced by firearms and cannons, and those in turn have been replaced by Scuds and heat-seeking missiles. Perhaps the highest form of air combat, besides ballistic missiles, is the drone. Each level of weaponry seems to be further disconnected from the other. With a drone, the pilot isn't even in the cockpit but is watching a television screen while maneuvering a joystick. (That name alone is ironic.)
Despite the distance, the soldiers who pilot drones do experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Apparently the distance from combat is not enough, and the soldiers' empathy kicks in.
Yeah, that really stuck out for me, too. He would have been better off just saying it's easier to dehumanize and kill people who aren't right up in front of you. Noting the similar traumatic outcomes undermined his own points.He contradicts himself from one paragraph to the next:
Which is it? Do these weapons force a personal disconnection, or are people still empathetic towards each other? Can't have both.
Counterpoint: a society that refuses to incarcerate violent criminals begets violence. Can’t virtue signal your way to safety.
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Why of course they do. That's why people who've legally owned firearms for decades are committing all these acts of violence. Oh, wait, that's total horseshit.
I'll tell you a real tale of causality, if it weren't for people wanting to cover their tables when they eat crabs, Balmer Sun would have gone the way of the Dodo.
He contradicts himself from one paragraph to the next:
Which is it? Do these weapons force a personal disconnection, or are people still empathetic towards each other? Can't have both.
That was the dumbest damned op-ed I think I've ever read. I am now stupider for having read it. That guy has no point and no argument. What an idiot.
Yeah, that really stuck out for me, too. He would have been better off just saying it's easier to dehumanize and kill people who aren't right up in front of you. Noting the similar traumatic outcomes undermined his own points.