At its best, the acceptance of war by assassination is a powerful check on the growth and depredations of governments. At its worst, it is a sometimes useful tool to avoiding the needless deaths of innocents, i.e., “collateral damage,” when nations clash..." - John Filiss - from the 1990's
Reminds me " All quiet on the Western Front " ...nearly a century old work. “... Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting...” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/786467-kropp-on-the-other-hand-is-a-thinker-he-proposes Its just silly to say Hackers alone created the basis for AP
