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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

if they're domestic terrorists why not I mean Obama did it to innocent muslims.

[–]Akali 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I don't like riots and think rioters should be arrested and fine, but aside from being highly amoral toward your citizens, drone striking your own citizen is on the level of syria dictatorship. Is this the kind of world you want to live in?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

is using a drone worse than a cop shooting them

[–]Akali 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Aside from the fact that drone striking would be like cops throwing grenade which could cause massive colateral damage, you jump into the issue of responsability. A cops who fuck up is a person. the system is far from perfect, but you know who fucked up. A drone strike is a chaine of command fully disconnected from reality where it take place. It means that you'll have specific code to follow and if anything break the code, then you'll have approval. And if someone fuck up, the code will be sued and modified instead of someone. Which doesn't seem like a good long term resolution.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

the reason to use a drone is if the drone gets destroyed, who cares, well it's a loss of money, but if a cop gets killed, that life is gone for good

it's kind of ludditism to not use available tech.

[–]wristaction 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I guess Obama could do that because progressives are evil? I don't know.

But I don't think Obama could have gotten away with bombing protesters on US soil.