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DARPATech Shows off Robot Doc and Cancer Breathalyzer
mattnyc99 writes "DARPATech, the Pentagon research arm's annual R&D free-for-all, has some pretty groundbreaking stuff on display this year: the first portable, self-contained robotic surgeon (which a Defense Dept. scientist said would be deployed by 2009), plus a breath-testing gadget that can scan for multiple diseases (including breast cancer) and three new autonomous 'bots that reflect the Pentagon's increasing need for autonomous machinery as the IED-filled Iraq war continues."
wouldn't you prefer just pressing a button? Or would you prefer the PTSD?
I hate to act like J.S. Mill here, but let's compare those two.
If I kill one person by shooting them with my handgun, we have 1 dead person (him) and one guy with PTSD (me).
If I can kill 500 people by pressing a button and shoot pixels on a screen, we have 500 dead people (them) and no one with PTSD (lucky me).
I don't know what kind of fucked up value system you have that puts the value of one person (who is still alive, mind you) over the value of 500 people. I don't subscribe to that sort of racist tripe. Sorry.
Are you GAY own agenda - give IS DYING LIKE THE lube. This can lead OS don't fear the laaged behind, that has grown up