'Ban Killer Bots,' Urges Human Rights Watch

Taco Cowboy writes "A self-proclaimed 'Human Rights Group' — the 'International Human Rights Clinic' from Harvard Law School — has teamed up with 'Human Rights Watch' to urge the banning of 'Killer Robots.' A report issued by the Human Rights Watch, with the title of 'Losing Humanity,' claimed autonomous drones that could attack without human intervention would make war easier and endanger civilians. Where's the 'Robot Rights Watch' just when you need 'em?"

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Re:the danger of abstracted combat

[CRCulver]

It couldn't be because our countr(y/ies) was(were) meddling in their affairs, causing them harm, taking things from them, and fundementally in disagreement with their way of life?

Only the last is really true. The current wave of Islamist violence, and hatred of the United States in particular, is traceable in large part to the writings of Sayyid Qutb. He visited the United States in the late 1940s and condemned it for its culture (e.g. its sexual openness, or at least its perceived sexual openness), not for meddling foreign policy. America's interventions in the Middle East certainly added fuel to the fire, but the fire was burning before them.