For some evidence that your point "it's quite possible" isn't merely some idle hypothetical, search for "Webb" and "Seager" in http://www.princeton.edu/~tleona

For some evidence that your point "it's quite possible" isn't merely some idle hypothetical, search for "Webb" and "Seager" in http://www.princeton.edu/~tleonard/papers/retrospectives.pdf http://www.princeton.edu/~tleonard/papers/retrospectives.pdf The same author (Leonard) also published a paper in _History of Political Economy_, "More Merciful and Not Less Effective." I remember it as similar, but I'm not finding an ungated version online.