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thinking about soldiers
Jun. 2nd, 2011 12:49 amThe best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
-- Wernher Von Braun
Just looking at these combat sequences and wondering why anyone would put actual human beings on the ground in harm's way.
It bothers me. There's so much that should be possible--hell, is possible--that I should never have soldiers walking around on the ground. It keeps coming back to me, over and over, that no human should ever be harmed.
And the only thing that keeps me going is knowing how cheap a human is in comparison. I have to make an economic choice that a human with a shield and a gun is actually cheaper than a robot. I need them there for plot's sake, but I need a decent reason to have them there.
Or a greedy, indecent reason. That works just as well. It's not like this is Moon.
-- Wernher Von Braun
Just looking at these combat sequences and wondering why anyone would put actual human beings on the ground in harm's way.
It bothers me. There's so much that should be possible--hell, is possible--that I should never have soldiers walking around on the ground. It keeps coming back to me, over and over, that no human should ever be harmed.
And the only thing that keeps me going is knowing how cheap a human is in comparison. I have to make an economic choice that a human with a shield and a gun is actually cheaper than a robot. I need them there for plot's sake, but I need a decent reason to have them there.
Or a greedy, indecent reason. That works just as well. It's not like this is Moon.
