Which is more morally objectionable to you?

[Dreamer Tatum]

[hfojvt]

1. those unknown people

are they known unknowns or unknown unknowns.

I mean, isn't it worth it to blow up 4 city blocks or so if you are 80% certain that hfojvt is in the house you are sending the drone to?

[meegbear]

2. ...

http://www.ebaumnation.com/2009/10/16/-the-box-parody

[MineralMan]

3. They are not equivalent things.

Apples and potatoes.

[Uncle Joe]

6. They can become more equivalent with cooking, making it more difficult to tell the difference.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/apple-potato-and-onion-hash-recipe/index.html

[Dreamer Tatum]

7. Who said they had to be equivalent? nt

[el_bryanto]

4. That's an interesting question

I suppose the execution of a prisoner is more objectionable, absent any other information. The prisoner is definitely helpless before the state. People we might be killing with drones may or may not be helpless. Obviously when civilians die by the hands (well not hands I guess, but you know what I mean) of those drones that is worse than either proposition.

On the other hand using drones to take out military targets? That's probably fine.

Bryant

[Obamanaut]

5. If it is a murderer who first kidnapped his victim, then raped her with

a stick, and left the stick in her, and then bludgeoned her to death - not objectionable at all to me.