Ethics of unmanned or drone weapon systems

It was none of your cotton picken business when I am addressing others, let abuayisha and Divya to respond to my rejoinder...

Are you saying the missiles fired by the drones can be recalled?
I will address the ethic part...

Actually it is my business since I started this thread and you have tried to commandeer it for your usual rants.  Please stick to the topic which is the morality or immorality of drone weapon systems relative to other systems.  On that subject, no I'm not saying drones weapons can or can't be recalled.  I was responding to a comment about the difference between manned verses unmanned weapon systems.  Recall of the weapon or, control of the weapon after release, is one possible difference.  As for the Huffington Post, I put that in to avoid the off topic links you seem to like from there.   

schmikbob wrote: Actually it is my business since I started this thread and you have tried to commandeer it for your usual rants.

As an agnostic on Islamic board this thread on ethics sounds oxymoron as it gets! Make it your business to define what ethical system do you follow...Without a basis this is an exercise in futility! 
 

Please stick to the topic which is the morality or immorality of drone weapon systems relative to other systems.

So tell me how do you set your moral compass?
 

On that subject, no I'm not saying drones weapons can or can't be recalled.was responding to a comment about the difference between manned verses unmanned weapon systems.  Recall of the weapon or, control of the weapon after release, is one possible difference.

The talk of recalling weapons once launched from a drone is meaningless, no they can't be recalled! What are trying to impress us here with?
That is why according to data collected by reporters on the drone killings, the kill rate of the so called suspects is 1.6%  of the total civilians killed on the ground in last couple years ...Go figure the total dead innocents!

 

As for the Huffington Post, I put that in to avoid the off topic links you seem to like from there.

How about from wikileak's publications or other investigative reports!
Would you be happy if I quoted Fox News?

Btw what are your own sources of information that are factual?




Edited by Sign*Reader - 10 January 2011 at 7:48pm

I an not sure about the morality per say. But when you kill someone, the further you are, the further you can distance oneself from that question. The fact that you are taking a human being's life, you really should think about that. And not take it lightly. When they are faceless it is alot easier to do. Killing people should not be a computer game.

When you kill someone, it is justifiable in self-defense. If you speak of Islamically I would think there would be big questions because you have to justify and know it was a threat and thus self-defense.

i remember watching a piece on the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. The soldiers killed unarmed civilians, just wiped them all out. We know that happened.

And in the case of Pakistan, I am not sure who the enemy really is. I don't think the government knows either...


Edited by Hayfa - 10 January 2011 at 10:45am