On that other thread I wrote: "I imagine it won't be long and they'll have robots doing that kind of driving to cut out the chance of them thinking what they are doing. Maybe in a sense they already are using robots."

What happens is that people get turned into cogs in a machine. That's even the term used - "the military machine". Expecting people to step out of line and act as human beings is sometimes asking an awful lot, because switching off and acting like a machine must be the only way you keep sane in some sitruations.Except that it's not really sane.

It's not that different really from the way that someone bombing a civilian target (by jet plane or bicycle, no real difference) manages to avoid seeing the victims as people like the people he or she loves. We are capable of dividing our minds and our souls into compartments.