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War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
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War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

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... on the historical scale, the damages wrought by individual violence for selfish motives are insignificant compared to the holocausts resulting from self-transcending devotion to collectively shared belief-systems. It is derived from primitive identification instead of mature social integration; it entails the partial surrender of personal responsibility and produces the quasi-hypnotic phenomena of group-psychology.