"Surely the time has come when the very stones themselves will cry out unless Ministers of the Christian Gospel speak out against such levity in the face of tragedy that the use of nuclear fission for destruction represents."
"[B]eyond the parsing of a vast deluge of data and the instant generation of thousands of target predictions, it is the impunity from responsibility garnered from this deceptive temporal displacement of human agency —and the clear consciences this affords— that is perhaps the key value proposition for the current users of the system. Why unnecessarily burden the psyche of a valuable soldier —already grieving their own losses— if blood on hands and atrocities on consciences can be avoided by having the machines automate away the inconvenient trauma of cold-blooded mass-murder (or at least the perceived responsibility for it)?"