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This chapter starts by providing background information about existing drones and generating a rough typology of the many kinds of drones that may exist in the future. It then explains that drones are not morally neutral. They create certain opportunities for action and inhibit others, thereby directing users’ actions in morally significant ways. Moral evaluation of drones should be concerned with judging the range of actions they enable their users to perform. Drones can be misused, and sometimes are. However, as a class of machines, drones increase the prospects of waging wars in morally justifiable ways without significantly increasing the likelihood of misconduct.
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Schulzke, M. (2017). The Drone Revolution. In: The Morality of Drone Warfare and the Politics of Regulation. New Security Challenges. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53380-7_2
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