Drones: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly This research paper will look at the issue behind drones, or UAV’s unmanned autonomous vehicles. There are many good, viable cases and quality reason as to how, and where drones can be used for the benefit of society. There are also many reasons and applications for drones that can bring about ethical questions and legalities that are being looked at by many Western nations today. This paper will focus on what is good, what is bad, and what could be an ugly use of drones through governmental deployment on a militarily basis. Drones can have a wide variety of applicable uses that have great benefits to them for our society. They can be used in pin-point accuracy crop farming, to track and battle out …show more content…
The safety and well-being of the soldier is put before that of the drone. The drone cannot feel emotions and have stress related issues that a normal soldier would when put into combat, therefore it should be the perfect application for combat warfare. Or should it? Is the psychological state of killing something from thousands of miles away by use of a software program that flies a drone into the battle zone to accomplish this task worth the risk? Or is there even such a risk? This is something that is being debated on a global …show more content…
The need for survival and the basic instinct to protect oneself is at the forefront of every soldier’s thoughts when they are put into battle. When the drone factor is put into play and this soldier has just become invisible to an enemy, thereby distinctly making that enemy the more vulnerable target, the soldier with the drone now has the upper hand on the battle field, yet this soldier can be thousands of miles away when the killing move is made. How this contributes to factors such as post-traumatic stress disorder, and other stress related battlefield disorders, is of major concern to some. There has always been the issue of mental disorders after major war instances, the effects of what happens to a soldier after a battle can be very harmful to a person