Pampered Degenerate
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- Apr 10, 2020
Of course there are more painful ways to die, or just get horrifically maimed, in war. It's more the idea that there's some fucker at the other end of the transmission watching you shit yourself in HD or whenever, and then dropping a bomb on you and saying 'lol, wasted' that I find horrifying, possibly. It's kind of analogous to being killed in a crash with a self driving car in a way. It's not they your death would be any different practically speaking, but I feel quite viscerally that I'd rather be killed by a human drunk driver than some robot. Maybe it comes down to the fact that, at least if a human kills you, your death had some kind of impact or meaning, even if it's just on that person, but if it's just due to a malfunctioning machine then it just feels completely meaningless. And about the 'hope' thing, I agree with that to an extent, but also if it's some random occurrence, then at least you've got the cope that it was 'just my time to go' or whatever. Idk, I'm just rambling, but something about having one of those little drones buzzing towards me, knowing that it brings inevitable death, just seems horrifying in a different way to being shot or blown up by a mine.I think the difference is hope. At least with mortars you might hope you get lucky and they all miss, or stop landing around you, regardless of how likely or not that is.
But some low flying drone just inching towards you, knowing some guy is watching you on a monitor dozens of miles away and has the time to wait for the best moment to kill you and there's nothing you can do but wait for it to happen.
That's what's struck me about these videos that you see now of drone strikes. The targets always seem to have just given up. It's so personal yet impersonal at the same time. Really dystopian stuff.
That's basically all you need to say. The fact that there's already a term for it shows that it's not even that weird, like rubber necking at a car crash.morbid curiosity