Chapter 18. WARFARE AND POPULATION DISPLACEMENT
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چکیده
The present book has the...purpose of straightening thought about war and peace.... [I]t seemed best to refrain from condemnation altogether. For indignation is so easy and satisfying a mood that it is apt to prevent one from attending to any facts that oppose it. If the reader should object that I have abandoned ethics for the false doctrine that “to understand everything is to pardon everything”, I can reply that it is only a temporary suspense of ethical judgment, made because “to condemn too much is to understand little.” L. F. Richardson, 1960 Statistics of Deadly Quarrels
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