Militaries are going woke
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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.