Lethal Autonomous Weapons and the Rise of Violence without Moral Restraints

This paper aims to investigate the impact of lethal autonomous weapon systems on the ethical aspects of warfare. The fundamental stance of this inquiry is that moral deskilling is a tangible threat due to the fact that autonomous weapons will instigate a slacking-off within the military cadres, which in turn will cause the loss of military ethics over a longer period since many of those military rules are virtues normally acquired via repetition on the job practice. The minimal survival of military virtues with little substance remaining after such a moral deskilling is what is at issue, not a one-time transgression of humanitarian law.