I agree with what you're saying, Frank, but drones, per se, are not immoral. Several highly beneficial--and life saving--uses for them have been mentioned in this thread, including finding lost people in wilderness areas, quickly checking the extent of forest fires, and a whole raft of other such uses.

In my brief (one year) tenure as a morning and evening rush hour traffic reporter on the radio, having a number of camera-bearing drones in the air during those times would have given much more accurate data on congested areas that commuters should avoid, and reveal quicker, little utilized routes.

I had to try to divine what was happening by listening to several police radios simultaneously (like reading the entrails of birds), while a couple of other radio stations in town had observers up in the air, one in a small plane, another in a helicopter. But Seattle is a big city with several large thoroughfare approaches including two large bridges and several smaller ones. So even the airborne reporters could only get a limited view.

A fleet of, say, half a dozen camera-equipped drones would have been able to show an immediate overall picture.

The tool is not the problem. How it is USED, is another matter.

Don Firth