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		pekk on March 27, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Killing hackers is justified in cyber warfare, say... If it was so easy to define war, then when did the US Civil War begin? We are already in an era after the atomic bomb, after "total war". Now we are disturbed that in the future, civilians might be killed along with the countries they support in war? How about this happening constantly in war all the way back to city-states?

walshemj on March 27, 2013 [–]

exactly there are death camps as far back as classical greece as any one who has read Thucydides will know.

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