Once people’s minds are implanted with the false proof that the drone is in principle a more precise weapon and, on that account, supposedly more in conformity with the principle of distinction, the necroethics of the drone abandons any discussion of fundamental issues and steers critics toward a debate on numbers in which, by reversing the onus of proof, those critics now have to establish empirically that this weapon, which they have just conceded in theory to be a priori more ethical, has in practice produced quite the opposite results—a fact that, once one has swallowed the original postulate, remains totally inexplicable other than by contingent circumstances such as human misuse and errors in deployment. The instrument, in other respects, remains good in itself.

Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, loc. 488