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malthaussen

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4. Well, war is a well-defined legal state.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Fri Aug 29, 2014, 01:46 PM

Aug 2014

We don't have wars anymore on this planet, instead we quibble over semantics because "war" is well-defined and thus expected to be conducted according to certain standards which can be evaded by not calling it war.

It's still killing people until they do what you want.

-- Mal

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