The speech-killing implications are obvious, and it's not as if they don't already have the tools they need to prosecute crime.
Regardless of their complexity, mechanised combatants will never be able to feel the moral implications of killing and the ethical reflection it sparks.
The purpose of the briefing, Representative Grayson told the Guardian, is "simply to get people to start to think through the implications of killing hundreds of people ordered by the president, or worse, unelected and unidentifiable bureaucrats within the Department of Defense without any declaration of war".
Neither was a nonbeliever by argument or by avowal, yet both helped kill God by implication and by insinuation.
In 1857, Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens collaborated on a play about the Arctic, "The Frozen Deep," in which a malevolent explorer by the name of Richard Wardour encounters his romantic rival in the Far North and is presented with the opportunity to kill (and, by implication, eat) him.
The next minute he's pulled into a vent by the Alien and killed himself, the implication being, right from the off, that if you mess around with guns and don't think about the violence you commit in this game, you won't get far.
By implication, the Americans were not only killing but blinking people away.
So what is killing honey bee colonies worldwide, and what are the implications for agriculture?
Deliberately or otherwise, the media is distorting language to subtly soften or cloud the visceral image of state institutions killing citizens - Orwell would surely tremble at the implications.
The less-than-subtle implication is that "these people" are simply killing each other.
