The Difficulty With Drones Analysis

As a question starts the article, “The Difficulty with Drones”, the reader is automatically forced to ask themselves: what exactly are drones, and what do they do? In our regular day world, they may not seem very important, but in the world of aircraft, they most certainly are, and very relevant. The Authors among the Christian Science Monitor board use verbal irony and diction to convey their opinion that drones may be seen as weak but they are evolving fast and cause fatalities around the world every day. Drones seem to be the last thing that comes to mind when asked to think about technology that is alarming. The authors express their opinion by saying, “[drones] conjure up a robotic worker doing simple repetitive tasks too boring for humans”. Through verbal irony, specifically sarcasm, the article begins with a

The author(s) write: “In the US, the argument over the ethics of using drones for targeted killings has gone on for some time”. The U.S., specifically, has had their ethical reasoning tested due to their tendency for using drones for targeted killings. The ethical choice in any situation would be to keep the most people alive possible. Ethics is a strong word in this phrase because the authors are attacking the reader’s emotions by triggering the idea of death. They also state: “Mistakes in targeting have resulted in civilian casualties and created a hostile anti-US reaction”. Along with the planned deaths, slip-ups by the drones or the U.S. themselves have caused civilian casualties, which have created hatred towards the United States from others. The authors of “The Difficulty with Drones” article express pathos and ethos within their input on the United States’ usage of drones by how this piece of technology has been the reason for many planned and unplanned deaths over the years and people’s responses to