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They can both be bad.

One way in which automated drones might be considered bad, is (if) they cannot accept surrender - but are used in scenarios where human operators could.

"No quarter" is a war crime.

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This is a much more difficult distinction to make than you're letting on. Cruise missiles offer no quarter, but manually operated drones might (though there is often no way to capture the opponents). The question is what is the difference between the two weapons systems...

What a fun system we have set up and continue to be trapped in

Drones might hunt down enemies running away from the target site, while a missile would only destroy the target - and those not abandoning their post?

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