From: Tony Williams 

Adam > wrote:
> Killing people for fun & profit hasn't been an edifying sight for a
> while now. I think the industrialization of warfare took the fun out of
> human-human slaughter coz it became human-machine-human slaughter.
>
> The sand of the arena wouldn't have been much fun with one gladiator &
> an aircraft out of sight & sound with a gps guided bomb.

  ... fitted with a nose camera beaming live footage to a TV set near
you. War as spectator sport and no blood to be seen. It scares the crap out
of me the way conflicts are reported like battle of the robots contests.
Still, it makes for good promotional videos come the next arms fair.

--
Tony

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