Perfection
April 27th 2011 14:13
For those that don't live in Australia there is a rather left wing, slightly pretentious but humorous TV show that not many people will watch called Hungry Beast. And the thing is I really like this show and yes it is pretentious and definitely left wing but the thing is I'm pretty left wing myself. Today's episode was about perfection and there was a couple things that I found particularly interesting. The first one was about the perfect solider. Apparently there is a company in the USA that creates the perfect soldier which isn't that surprising for it seems that the USA tend to enjoy finding more ways to kill other humans.
It wasn't till this show pointed out to me that apparently soldiers these days are psychological engineered to be capable of killing another human being without even a blink. According to the show soldiers 60 or so years ago had the shooting precision of 20% thus indicating that 80% of the time a soldier would actually miss the target. It was said that this low target suggested that soldiers missed due to human error or purposely missed as the thought of killing someone was a little to much. But now shooting accuracy had now increased to near perfect. Furthermore with news it brought me back to the story that I watched on Dateline about the increase technology about using robots in modern warfare. At the helm of robots most soldiers who operate them as if they are playing games. It has been know that the less people identify their target as human the more likely they are okay with killing them. This to me is concerning, very concerning. The obvious ethical concerns are seem to be ignored by most people in the world. First not only is bad for the targets may it be the insurgents or a child. Furthermore the affect it has on the soldiers, are they building soldiers that cannot identify that war isn't the answer to everything and lose the sense that they are killing a person. They are taking the live of another human being, be it the enemy - this enemy is still human. This enemy maybe a lot like you, a person who may have a family, children, loves, passions and hates just like you. These technology just dehumanise the enemy. And all this well good for the military plan but what about the human factor? What about the people?
Further in the story of perfect soldiers, technology have been invested to make use of all the potential that the human body has, investing in research into drugs that can prolong a person's ability to stay awake for hours, digestive system so soldiers can eat and survive on grass and plants. HOLY FUCK!!!
Yea that was my rant for today. It's like watching science fiction playing out. I don't know if I want to reach perfection.
Arab proverb: a rug is perfectly imperfect, and precisely imprecise.
Go check out Hungry Beast at www.hungrybeast.abc.net.au/
It wasn't till this show pointed out to me that apparently soldiers these days are psychological engineered to be capable of killing another human being without even a blink. According to the show soldiers 60 or so years ago had the shooting precision of 20% thus indicating that 80% of the time a soldier would actually miss the target. It was said that this low target suggested that soldiers missed due to human error or purposely missed as the thought of killing someone was a little to much. But now shooting accuracy had now increased to near perfect. Furthermore with news it brought me back to the story that I watched on Dateline about the increase technology about using robots in modern warfare. At the helm of robots most soldiers who operate them as if they are playing games. It has been know that the less people identify their target as human the more likely they are okay with killing them. This to me is concerning, very concerning. The obvious ethical concerns are seem to be ignored by most people in the world. First not only is bad for the targets may it be the insurgents or a child. Furthermore the affect it has on the soldiers, are they building soldiers that cannot identify that war isn't the answer to everything and lose the sense that they are killing a person. They are taking the live of another human being, be it the enemy - this enemy is still human. This enemy maybe a lot like you, a person who may have a family, children, loves, passions and hates just like you. These technology just dehumanise the enemy. And all this well good for the military plan but what about the human factor? What about the people?
Further in the story of perfect soldiers, technology have been invested to make use of all the potential that the human body has, investing in research into drugs that can prolong a person's ability to stay awake for hours, digestive system so soldiers can eat and survive on grass and plants. HOLY FUCK!!!
Yea that was my rant for today. It's like watching science fiction playing out. I don't know if I want to reach perfection.
Arab proverb: a rug is perfectly imperfect, and precisely imprecise.
Go check out Hungry Beast at www.hungrybeast.abc.net.au/
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