&gt; <i>If we can kill 1,000 people with 0 deaths, however, the ethical bar for how we apply that force should be held to a stricter standard...</i><p>What do you mean &quot;if&quot;? We&#x27;ve already killed thousands of people with drone strikes. And sadly the ethical bar on that is not held to a stricter standard, indeed it&#x27;s held to a lower standard. Some people are targeted based on social networking algorithms that are hugely flawed. The ratio of &quot;collateral damage&quot; deaths to &quot;good kills&quot; is perhaps as low as 50&#x2F;50, maybe even worse, since there&#x27;s very little investigative followup.