re: #77 iossarian

I realize this. (Please consider this to be my response to the other comments making similar points above, btw).

My point is not that drones are particularly different from other contemporary technologies in the distance they place between the killer and the target. My point is that they illustrate this distance quite clearly, and the distance makes people uncomfortable.

Besides, it’s not as if it’s difficult or far-fetched to imagine that technological advances could quite rapidly decrease that 1:1 ratio substantially - is that something we would be comfortable with?

Arguably, the drone pilots are closer to their targets than the guys dropping bombs from B-17s were.