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Originally Posted by Letum
"It is well that war is so terrible; lest we should grow too fond of it"
It doesn't work like that.
The horror of war will never deter someone who thinks they can gain from it and
generally, those who start wars are not the ones who suffer most from them.
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That only means that war is not costly enough. Make the horror greater than the gains.
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It is madness to launch a doomsday weapon with the words:
"well, this will make sure we don't do something this terrible again!"
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Who said that? Letum did, and he alone.
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killed, I don't doubt that in the slightest. You missed the line below in your quote.
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No, I intentionally left it out, since these events were no civil unrests or riots or opression by authority, as you mentioned them and by that declared them to be outside a context of raging battle and war, but having been the deciding battles to wipe out an enemy once and for all, and thus were war.