This is like an episode of Star Trek: TOS in which 2 nations had their war simulated on computers and then the citizens would report to suicide chambers based on the results of the simulations. The citizens considered it easier to just let computers decide how many should be killed than to have to deal with all the wasted effort and messiness of real war.
Of course, Capt Kirk set them straight in the end....
This is like an episode of Star Trek: TOS in which 2 nations had their war simulated on computers and then the citizens would report to suicide chambers based on the results of the simulations. The citizens considered it easier to just let computers decide how many should be killed than to have to deal with all the wasted effort and messiness of real war. Of course, Capt Kirk set them straight in the end....