Lawfare Archive: Benjamin Wittes and Conor Friedersdorf Debate the Ethics of Drones
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Drones Are a Weapon, Not a Warfare
Sally Kohn: Almost everything we debate in terms of drones is really about something else. We have a completely different vocabulary for talking about drones then we talk about almost any other weapon, she says. She argues that if it is ethical to attack somebody with a stick or with a gun and not an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), than it should be legal to do the same thing using UAVs. The drone is just the latest tactical advance in weaponry, writes Kohn. It isn't more complicated than that,"she adds.
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