I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learners featured post. War is something I do not wish for even an enemy to experience. I cannot say that I have experienced war per se, but I have seen a village after it was raided by Boko Haram terrorists sometime ago when I was still living in the northern part of Nigeria, and I can tell you for free the picture of people lying lifeless on the ground never left my head. War claims lives and properties. War is one of the few things that can take an individual from hero to zero because in a twink of an eye it can take everything you own; things that took you ages and decades to build can be destroyed by just one explosive, leaving you with nothing and forcing you to start afresh.
Today we have many displaced people; people who once had homes of their own and towns of their own are now forced to roam from one end of the world to the other with no destination in mind, as they have nowhere to call home or their own, and all of this is as a result of war. In war not just civilians are affected; we have the military men who are the defenders of the country dying in dozens too. Living my life within a military base, I saw a lot of kids grow up without a father, not because the father wanted it to be so but because he had to pay the ultimate price for his country. I have also seen young women become widows even before they start to enjoy their marriages. The death of these soldiers always leaves a vacuum nothing and nobody else can fill in the lives of their kids, wives, and even family back home.
One of the ways to actually stop and reduce the number of soldiers lost to war is by having machines and metals do the job for them. In areas too dangerous to tread, machines and robots go in on their behalf, and that way no life is lost, and no vacuum is created in the life of kids or their mothers at an early age. So if we were to vote on it, I think having these robots fight these fights and tread dangerous areas is something I support with every fiber in me. We will have our soldiers come back home to their families, standing on their feet all the time and not lying in a box. Having machines and robots fight wars will help preserve the lives of soldiers, which is a merit of having robots and machines fight our wars.
Then the demerit is that wars might last longer than supposed to; we humans tend to overdo things. You can start hearing those in command saying they are just metals; even if all the ones we have at the war front don't make it back home, we can always create another one, and a war that if humans were fighting would last a month or two ends up lasting for years, as all they need is to make new robots to keep the fight going. Having robots and machines fight humans' war will be a double-edged sword; we will get to enjoy it, and we will get to hate it.
