Comment Re:Shall we play a game? (Score 1) 91
Perhaps the moral equivalent, perhaps. But a landmine will remain lethal for decades, if not longer, and as far as I know there are none that have been deployed that can be easily turned off. Nor did those who placed them keep any real record of where they were for retrieval later.
There's little chance of a couple hundred killbots being left in place and active after a conflict ends. And hopefully they won't default into a kill children, puppies, and anything that moves mode. Plus they won't be as cheap an plentiful as mines either.
The truly deplorable part about landmines is that a civilian who wasn't even born before the conflict ended could be killed or injured by one 30 years after a peace treaty was signed.