Argumentative Essay On Drones

Drones: Flying Terror Are drones a good machine to use in warfare? Drones are unpiloted armed machines, controlled by experts (usually soldiers) thousands of miles away. While people might believe that the use of drone in war will benefit the United States and other countries, they are actually more harmful to people, both mentally and physically. By defining the necessity of people the recognize the harms of drones in people, by refuting counter arguments of those who believe the use of drones is beneficial, and by presenting information and arguments from documents, it will be obvious from the information presented that drones are not the right way to go, and they will be harmful instead of beneficial for people. Drones have been used in

One of the reasons the government is using drones instead of other methods, is because they are cheap. The government prefers to use these cheaper machines in war, traumatizing people all around the world, not just in the attacked areas, scaring children to the point where they do not want to leave the house in fear, rather than using other methods of war. Other people believe these drones will save the lives of innocent people and civilians, as stated in source A “A drone strike can kill a person in one room of a house and spare the lives of people in other rooms. Their precision means there's less of a chance of innocent civilians being killed.” This is not all true though, even though these machines are really accurate, many civilians and innocent people have been killed by drones, for example, “A new report from British human rights group Reprieve suggests that, based on available evidence, as many as 1,147 people in Yemen and Pakistan, including children, were killed in the U.S. drone strikes…” (Source I) Source K also states that “According to a meta-study of drone strikes, between 8 to 17% of all people killed in drone strikes are civilians.” As one can see from this information, drones are not as good as people believe they are, they can be worse than other methods of