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by hersko 640 days ago
A non "weaselwords" version:

A country has a right to defend its citizens. It can go to war to do so. War is horrible and civilians die.

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Your version is called jingoism.

It's funny, everyone on Hacker News at least completed high school in principle. But there's so much brave conservatism that high school education should have infused students with enough critical thinking to make them think about what they're really saying, regardless of how complex or simple their version of words is.

This applies to both sides