We're all used to reading obituaries that don't have any heart in them. Few are the people among us who can say that the impersonal nature of companies is surprising. We all know how we tend to get a bit impersonal in our email / IM replies. But can a soldier in a war say that the killing of lives that a war always results in is impersonal? Thanks to technological advances, yes!
"It's the fundamental difference between the bomber pilots of WWII and even the bomber pilots of today. It's disconnection from risk on both a physical and psychological plain.
"When my grandfather went to war in the Pacific, he went to a place where there was such danger he might not ever come home again. You compare that to the drone pilot experience. Not only what it's like to kill, but the whole experience of going to war is getting up, getting into their Toyota Corolla, going in to work, killing enemy combatants from afar, getting in their car, and driving home. So 20 minutes after being at war, they're back at home and talking to their kid about their homework at the dinner table."
Here's to our modern civilisation - not only have we found enough justification to kill people in an inhuman manner, we've made the whole process impersonal as well!
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