Avoidance of civilian casualties increasingly affects the political calculus of legitimacy in armed conflict. “Collateral damage” is a problem that can be managed through the material production of precision, but it is also the case that precision is a problem managed through the cultural production of collateral damage. Bearing decisively on popular perceptions of ethical conduct in recourse to political violence, childhood is an important site of meaning-making in this process. In pop culture, news dispatches, and social media, children, as quintessential innocents, figure prominently where the dire human consequences of imprecision are depicted. Children thus affect the practical “precision” of even the most advanced weapons, perhaps precluding a strike for their presence, potentially coloring it with their corpses. But who count as children, how, when, where, and why are not at all settled questions. Drawing insights from what the 2015 film, Eye in the Sky, reveals about a key social technology of governance we have already internalized, I explore how childhood is itself a terrain of engagement in the (un)making of precision.

避免平民伤亡越来越影响武装冲突中合法性的政治考量。“附带损害”是可以通过精确的物质生产来管理的问题，但精确度也是通过附带损害的文化生产来管理的问题。在诉诸政治暴力的情况下，儿童对道德行为的普遍看法具有决定性意义，童年是这一过程中意义建构的重要场所。在流行文化、新闻报道和社交媒体中，儿童作为典型的无辜者，在描绘不精确造成的可怕人类后果的地方占据显着位置。因此，即使是最先进的武器，儿童也会影响其实际“精确度”，可能会阻止他们的存在进行打击，并可能用他们的尸体为其着色。但谁算作孩子，如何，何时，何地以及为什么根本没有解决的问题。从 2015 年的电影中汲取见解，天空之眼，揭示了我们已经内化的一项关键社会治理技术，我探讨了童年本身是如何参与（非）精确制造的领域。