the belief that things will never get better on their own, or even stay at their current level
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Cowardice is itself a form of hope - hope that someone else will save you, that there will be someplace to run
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Sun Tzu said it's very very dangerous, if you're winning, to take all forms of escape away
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you are, essentially, making cowardice an untenable choice and when you do that people surprise you
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it's an actual thing in warfare to intentionally leave an escape for enemies to route through
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since if you force them to fight to the last you'll suffer greater casualties
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Replying to @MxTolvo @arthur_affect and
this is why unless your numbers vastly outdo theirs you aren't supposed to totally surround enemies
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"Unconditional surrender" was a novelty when the Allies came up with it in WWII
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a war is supposed to end with a treaty, plausible terms of tribute, a "better luck next time"
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what we were asking from Japan in WWII was huge, society-shaking
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and we only got it bc we had the Death Star
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Well,that's where the paper thin metaphor breaks, though. Everybody's got "death stars" now.
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yeah, SW's big break with reality was making superweapons unique and impossible to duplicate
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