30 September 2012

of mice, and men, and the machine

Surgeons:

"They use a scalpel. Their cuts are precise down to the millimeter. Once in a great while there is a slip of the knife, a catastrophic mistake. In those cases, the surgeon is held accountable and the victim lavishly compensated. Oh, and there's one more thing about surgical procedures: while the person being cut into is occasionally victimized by a mistake, there is never a case where the scalepel is guided to imprecisely that it kills the dozen people standing around the operating table. For that reason, orderlies  and family members don't cower in hospital halls terrified that a surgeon is going to arbitrarily kill them. And if he did, he'd be arrested for murder.


So no, drone strikes aren't like surgery at all."




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