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In every war each side hides or downplays its own losses and exaggerates the losses of the enemy. Samuel Johnson in 1758: 'Among the calamities of war may be j
by protomolecule 2y ago
In every war each side hides or downplays its own losses and exaggerates the losses of the enemy.
Samuel Johnson in 1758: 'Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.'[0]
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- peutetre 2y ago[flagged]
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- dang 2y agoYou both broke the site guidelines here. Please don't use HN for this sort of flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- peutetre 2y agoThere is no flamewar. It's no insult to call a nihilist a nihilist. They don't care. They're nihilists.
- dang 2y agoNationalistic flamewar will get you banned here, regardless of which nation you're for or against, so please stop posting like this.
- peutetre 2y agoThere is no nationalism from me. You've got this one very wrong, dang. This is poor judgement and unimpressive.
- defrost 2y agoQuick question for you to ponder then; did you or did you not engage multiple times with a nationalist who is frequently flagged for starting and persisting in flamewars? If you did then that would be what is being referenced .. there was no claim that you personally are a nationalist .. it would appear that you're "simply" being pedantic about terms here, which is passively engaging in the behaviour that the guidelines seek to discourage.
- dang 2y agoWhen I say "nationalistic flamewar" I simply mean people posting pejorative or inflammatory things about specific nations, and/or getting into flamewar-style arguments in the context of national disputes. There's no question that your account did that in this thread, multiple times and quite badly. That's against the HN guidelines, which is the only thing that matters from a moderation point of view. If it helps at all, I didn't mean to imply that you are espousing nationalism.
- dang 2y agoYou both broke the site guidelines here. Please don't use HN for this sort of flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html