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Discussion 12 : 23 Nov 2012 at 18.2612
This seems to be a bit silly considering all the weapons in use now that kill indiscriminately without permission ( land mines etc. ) At least robots may have some artifical intellengence and may prove to be more judgementally accurate than their human counterpart. Bombs dropped from airplanes, motors, RPG's all are indiscriminate. Terrorist are indiscriminate. Start with banning humans from shooting and killing indiscriminately first. In fact it could be that the rebots prove to be lifesavers for many law enforcement and military personnel.
Discussion 11 : 23 Nov 2012 at 18.1311
This is how Skynet started...
Discussion 10 : 23 Nov 2012 at 16.5210
@banmebkk #9: But why are the drone operators protected by their government? I.e. if a soldier in war area drives a big tank into a market because he saw one terrorist and he kills lots of civilians then there is a good chance that he will be prosecuted – at least if someone survived to report the incident.
So are drone operators protected by their government because they are not on the battlefield? If the drone operators don’t know who they intent to kill then they should not pull the trigger.
So now drones and their controllers are already treated like they were robots. Nobody is held responsible!Discussion 9 : 23 Nov 2012 at 15.509
@Disc 8 - Drone operators are not prosecuted because they are being protected by their government! Simple as that, blame the government not the human control - Drones! It is not as the Drones have a brain of their own and makes their own decision.
Discussion 8 : 23 Nov 2012 at 13.518
@bkposter #7: Thanks for your reply. Yes, you are right that “there is no decision by a computer as to who to kill or not kill the decision was made by some person that selected the target to kill everything in the targeted area”
Ok, so there are somewhere some people who are responsible for these deadly incidents. So what happened to all these persons who controlled drones that killed innocent civilians? How many of them were prosecuted? How many are in jail for murder?Discussion 7 : 23 Nov 2012 at 09.567
RE : D2. BKK -farang. I agree the drones firing into other countries without any declaration of war and with no right to violate another countries sovereignty are both wrong and immoral. But the drones are a programed delivery system (a mere tool) and it is a human being that programs it to hit a targeted area....there is no decision by a computer as to who to kill or not kill the decision was made by some person that selected the target to kill everything in the targeted area.
Discussion 6 : 22 Nov 2012 at 22.446
We can see human rights violation all over the globe and little is done about it unless resources or money is involved. The EU has a human rights budget of over Euro 1 bn. Then there is the far greater cost of keeping low life falsely using these conventions out of prison, or whatever. I wonder about this growth industry, do we need unelected people(some with ulterior motives we might not agree to)becoming our morale compass? We may need some overseer, but who says what it should look like and what powers and budget it has?
Discussion 5 : 22 Nov 2012 at 18.525
I dont know about here but in many civilized countries it is against the law to booby trap your home with fire arms to harm intruders.
Discussion 4 : 22 Nov 2012 at 11.044
There's enough technology around to build a robot in my garage; but seriously... who in his right mind would waste so much time and resources to build a robot capable of random killing when people are doing such a fine job all on their own?
Don't we already have nukes to do that?Discussion 3 : 22 Nov 2012 at 08.303
People are able to shoot people without permission from authorities.
Does it make the killing more righteous than for robots?
Killing is wrong; no matter who does it.
