It sounds like you feel that autonomous killer drones are a dystopia, and that anything related to the drones -- including mitigating their effect -- is therefore dystopian in itself, even if it is combating that dystopia? Sort of a tarring by contextual environment? I suppose by that reasoning a socialist is a capitalist because even though they fight capitalism they live in a capitalist society.

I'm not really following.

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delbronski 9 hours ago | parent [-]

“It sounds like you feel that autonomous killer drones are a dystopia, and that anything related to the drones“

Yes!!! What do you think a dystopia is? The entire world of 1984 is a dystopia. Just cause there’s a company making money to “combat” that dystopia doesn’t make the thing any less dystopian.

	▲	mediaman 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That sounds like a fallacy of composition to me. That some element of the world is dystopian means the world is therefore dystopian. And if the world is dystopian, then every element of it is dystopian: no element of the world is not dystopian. It's an interesting "poison the well" type of argument, but it also means that if one accepts that all of human history has had dystopian elements (chemical weapons, slavery, feudalism, etc etc), that therefore the world has always been dystopian, and that then therefore everything in the world has also always been dystopian. And you've created a label that includes everything that has ever existed and excludes none of it, which is meaningless.