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>But how the hell is it acceptable to use sth like "IED/UXO" on an article about ethics?

how the hell do you expect to understand an article on autonomous drones ethics without knowing that IED/UXO means? It makes obvious that you lack basic knowledge of modern factual landscape in the domain, and how do you expect to understand ethics of the domain without basic factual knowledge of the domain?

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The argument that those acronyms are a requirement for the understanding of the ethics of autonomous killer robots is a very difficult one.

it is a major drone use case. Understanding an ethics of technology without knowledge of major use cases - that is a difficult argument.

My bad, dude. The ambiguity has been addressed in other people's replies.

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