Militaries are going woke
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Well, someone was controlling the Obama-ordered drones that were executing American citizens overseas. Certainly that was unconstitutional.
noooo how dare you not lick the boot! NOOOOO
do drone operators know who they're gunning for?
Granted, I'm [obviously] not military, but I'd like to think I would at least ask the question before icing someone.
But I think you hit on something. Unconstitutional orders become constitutional if the people feeding information decide to lie to buttonmen.
Psychopass had a neat illustration of this. People thought they were just playing a videogame but actually they were remote-controlling killer robots.
Or Ender's Game, where it started out like a video game, in order to condition Ender to nonchalantly send real pilots to their deaths if it means winning the war against the bugmen.