Automatic for the people

Recently I watched a DVD called "stealth" now it is hokum. Enjoyable, but still hokum.
It did however raise one a question about the military pursuit of unmanned combat air vehicles (ucav).
Are we creating technology that will make it too easy for us to kill?
I remember in history of the second world war they setup the death camps because the time, cost and psychological effects on the people who did this slaughter was too high. It may seem odd to you but even the most diehard Nazi could not face the extended butchery that was carried out. And in fact when they created the death camps and the gas chambers they actually forced the Jews to do it themselves. They did this because again the effects on the people who did these tasks where high

You might think the above is a little strong but when you read how the Nazis went about it you can see they are distancing themselves as much as possible from the slaughter creating a buffer between the orders they made and the reality of the tasks. Even the language was altered into something neutral and harmless, you read some of them and you would never know they contained orders for the deaths of people.

Again a little strong but look at the language the military now uses it seems harmless beneficial even to the people on the receiving end of military hardware. Of course the military cannot be blamed for this they only react to the pressures that we put on them (and who ultimately benefit from their sacrifice with cheap oil and protection from terrorists)

Now back to the UCAVs death at a distance. We give it the orders it does them we never see the slaughter and we are separated from it killing making it more like a game. You just need the quarters. People say UCAVS will save pilots lives but that still leaves the poor bloody infantryman.

And perhaps we should have pilots who can die. Maybe we will be a little more cautious about going to war knowing our lives are at stake too.

As an extra point if we are so worried about robots taking over the world why do we insist on creating military robots?

I would like to say that the men and women who serve in the armed forces do have my respect. They have been given a thankless task in a dangerous environment and we often forget they really do want to help people and make the world safer for us.