DSimon comments on Rationality Quotes: January 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DSimon 03 January 2011 06:18:39PM 17 points [-]

All Wars are Follies, very expensive, and very mischievous ones. When will Mankind be convinced of this, and agree to settle their Differences by Arbitration? Were they to do it, even by the Cast of a Dye, it would be better than by Fighting and destroying each other.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Comment author: NihilCredo 04 January 2011 03:47:31PM 5 points [-]

war, n.: a challenge to a contest that cannot be refused.

Comment author: DSimon 04 January 2011 04:49:26PM 2 points [-]

A good reason to accept such challenges, but not a good reason to issue them...

Comment author: CronoDAS 04 January 2011 01:32:52AM *  8 points [-]

The unpleasant truth is that war does have one useful function: it brings peace. Let it.

-- Edward Luttwak, "Give War a Chance"

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