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Comment author: ChristianKl 19 March 2014 02:40:40PM 0 points [-]

The War on Cancer leads to people getting cancer "prevention" screenings that produce unnecessary operations and don't increase life expectancy.

It's about using violence to cut out the cancer in the early stages. It fits well into the pattern of the other examples.