Guns have killed thousands, if not millions of thoughts. But, yes, as you ask, didn’t thoughts cause those guns to fire? Are we all just biomechanical machines? Like guns?
Hrm, are they? In this world of drone wars? Death is incredibly abstracted from those that utter mere words, (mere thoughts?). They don’t have to exhibit those behaviors. Is it any different from the masses that play call of duty? I’m not so sure any more. Not sure if this is what the OP was getting at. Just asking questions. For me the lines seem to be ever increasing blurred.
I know what you mean, how technology has created this distance between the action and the result. But it’s still an action. Someone has to locate the target and press the button or whatever it is they do. They can’t do it by shear thought alone (at least, not yet, but who knows maybe that’s coming down the pipeline sometime in the future, yikes).
As an interesting aside, drone weapon operators are vulnerable to developing PTSD. I would have thought they would be more or less immune to it because they don’t physically experience the violence and destruction, but apparently not.
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Deadly to whom, to what?
Guns have killed thousands, if not millions of thoughts. But, yes, as you ask, didn’t thoughts cause those guns to fire? Are we all just biomechanical machines? Like guns?
Thoughts and behaviours are two different things.
Thoughts can’t hurt other people, and just because we think something doesn’t mean we have to act on it.
Behaviour is what kills, and guns just make it that much easier.
Hrm, are they? In this world of drone wars? Death is incredibly abstracted from those that utter mere words, (mere thoughts?). They don’t have to exhibit those behaviors. Is it any different from the masses that play call of duty? I’m not so sure any more. Not sure if this is what the OP was getting at. Just asking questions. For me the lines seem to be ever increasing blurred.
I know what you mean, how technology has created this distance between the action and the result. But it’s still an action. Someone has to locate the target and press the button or whatever it is they do. They can’t do it by shear thought alone (at least, not yet, but who knows maybe that’s coming down the pipeline sometime in the future, yikes).
As an interesting aside, drone weapon operators are vulnerable to developing PTSD. I would have thought they would be more or less immune to it because they don’t physically experience the violence and destruction, but apparently not.