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>>12054617
give me your thoughts on
>>12054651
please.

i understand that not *every* war necessarily has to go Nuclear, and that Girard's 'escalation to extremes' argument is basically Slippery Slope Uber Alles, but give me your thoughts on this idea first.

also even in my Taoist hermit village i think there is room for the kung-fu duel, the Royal Rumble, the Bureaucracy of Celestial Rhetorical Violence, the annual Insulti-Mania and about 20M other ways of *ludically* resolving the Fun inherent to violence and high-spiritedness. we don't want all to become decadent radical pacifist anaemics any more than we want to be barbarians. but Solving For Mischief is very much a part of the Cosmotech prime directive.