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If we're not fighting yet, Mm having a deadlier weapon makes the cost of attacking me higher for my enemy, discouraging him. If we are already fighting, having a deadlier weapon will mean I kill more of them than they kill of us.
My enemy having a deadlier weapon makes it less costly to attack me, and makes them kill more of us.
So yes, having a deadlier weapon makes us more safe. The alternative to nobody having it is preferable, but that would require an enemy who will cooperate with me, which is a contradiction in terms.
I think you are confused about who your enemy is and who will get their hands on such drones. Maybe watch "Slaughterbots" on YT.
How will me not having them prevent my enemy from having them?
The point is you won't have them. Nor anyone who would use them to defend your interests. Unless, of course, you're the only billionaire lurking here.
If I'm someone living in Ukraine, I may not personally have military drones but they are working to my advantage. Am I concerned about elites controlling violent tools that average people don't have access to? Yes. Would I take that over an immediate threat of dying in the trenches? Yes. I don't think it's hard to understand Ukraine's line of thought here.
It isn't hard for them to understand, but they are pushing the narrative that it is.
You don't need autonomous kill decisions for that.
Russia is regularly jamming drones in terminal flight. The drones are now able to stay locked onto a target and guide themselves in. This almost completely negates the effectiveness of jamming.
These drones are critical to stopping the invader.
If you are upset about it, point your finger at the invader for putting an entire peoples back to the wall while murdering their children.
Now you are moving the goal posts. Being able to stay locked onto a target has nothing to do with autonomous kill decisions.
It's often both/either. Some have an operator select the target seconds before and it goes in for the final descent automatically. Others have the operator select a list of targets and a geofence at launch. Yet others are automated turrets with a 'shoot in that direction' directive. They are pretty varied.