2019 Volume 12 Issue 3 Pages 201-208
In this article. I examine ethical issues surrounding combat drones, including autonomous ones, as one of the case studies of war ethics or the ethics of war, which is one of the disciplines of applied ethics. The main body of this article consists of 4 sections (Sections 2-5). In Section 2, I will provide a brief overview of war ethics. In Section 3, I will sketch an outline of ‘just war theory’, which is one of the mainstream approaches, along with political realism and pacifism in war ethics. In Section 4, I will introduce several topics and issues, currently being discussed in war ethics. In Section 5, I will conclude by illustrating a hopefully counterfactual dystopian future where fully autonomous combat drones are frequently used as a method of attack.
