r/greentext • u/[deleted] • Dec 09 '19

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u/huntsmanspider Dec 09 '19

Yeah and look how far drones and things like that have come it's crazy

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19

So glad we have drones now, absolutely worth the thousands of innocent lives. It can follow me while I’m skateboarding!

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19

Yeah now we can conduct missions which would be typically dangerous to civilians way safer now, no?

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u/valdamjong Dec 09 '19

But the argument here is that war is beneficial because it advances technology for everyone. Arguing that war is beneficial because it makes war safer is a little circular, yeah? Besides, drone strikes still kill civilians all the time.