past a certain point cheating in anything doesn't matter, because everything sooner or later is reduced to a proxy for war.
And war has no rules, except those a superior power can force onto a conflict.
War is beyond moral considerations, and therefore the only moral position is victory, victory at all costs.
The opposite is obliteration.
It is why the victors write the history books.
Morality is neither gravedigger nor necromancer. It does not dig up the dead and the lost to decry the manner of their defeat, nor note the infamy and injustices of the victors. Only internal decay, the iron law of oligarchy, and inefficient corruption weakens a state sufficiently that inside and outside forces may destroy or supplant it. Few states die natural deaths. Many states are murdered by their own wickedness or some external power more wicked than them. And this is the course of things for all time. This is how the books are balanced.
Precariously, inevitability. Slowly and then all at once.
prototype 0 points 2.4 years ago
past a certain point cheating in anything doesn't matter, because everything sooner or later is reduced to a proxy for war.
And war has no rules, except those a superior power can force onto a conflict.
War is beyond moral considerations, and therefore the only moral position is victory, victory at all costs.
The opposite is obliteration.
It is why the victors write the history books.
Morality is neither gravedigger nor necromancer. It does not dig up the dead and the lost to decry the manner of their defeat, nor note the infamy and injustices of the victors. Only internal decay, the iron law of oligarchy, and inefficient corruption weakens a state sufficiently that inside and outside forces may destroy or supplant it. Few states die natural deaths. Many states are murdered by their own wickedness or some external power more wicked than them. And this is the course of things for all time. This is how the books are balanced.
Precariously, inevitability. Slowly and then all at once.