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U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov's First Law

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fourth-law-is-don't-look-at-me-i'm-hideous dept.

buanzo writes "The US Army is deploying armed robots in Iraq that are capable of breaking Asmov's first law that they should not harm a human. SWORDS (Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection Systems) robots are equipped with either the M249, machine gun which fires 5.56-millimeter rounds at 750 rounds per minute or the M240, which fires 7.62-millimeter rounds at up to 1,000 per minute. " update this story refers to this article from 2005. But com'on, robots with machine guns! I don't get to think about that most days!

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  1. Re:Not really... by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Troll

    First off, "war on terror" != "WW2".

    War on terror is just some excuse to kill thousands of INNOCENT CIVILIANS under the guise of "intelligence snafus".

    As for the "low threshold". If these people placed any value on the lives of others they would question being in the military and seriously give oppressing other nations a rest.

    I'm sorry but are you folk seriously blinded to how one sided your news and media are?

    *** TEN TIMES *** the number of dead on 9/11 have died in Iraq since March 2003.

    *** YOU ARE *** the terrorists you sick fucking depraved lunatics!

    Tom

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  2. Re:Not really... by tomstdenis · · Score: 1, Troll

    ... hitmen in the Mob work hard too you know. We don't celebrate them either.

    Point is where the military is being deployed is very, how you say, "selective".

    Tom

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  3. Re:Am I the only one... by dalroth5 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I can't see your reasoning.

    "I don't want a tac nuke in private hands, because I don't believe you're capable of only hitting those who are actually posing a threat to you personally."

    Neither is a government or anybody else with such a weapon; so your point is what?

    "I also wouldn't let you have land mines, pursuant to the common law principle of prohibiting reckless endangerment."

    So reckless endangerment is _valid_... but only as a prerogative of government?

    How can you possibly reconcile this with the idea that the US is any kind of democracy? Please wake up before the US _becomes_ the 'evil empire' in your Terminator and Star Wars movies. If you don't, then as I've said before, one day we'll all have to get together and fight you. That would be a sad day indeed.

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