re: #239 Decatur Deb

She is a pacifist, a tanker’s kid raised on Armor bases in the 50s. Her argument is that rules make war a gentleman’s game where the agony falls on the non-combatants—thus more likely.

So her take was to remove all the rules and thus make war *so* terrible that no one would fight anymore?

If so, there have been a number of others who thought this or that invention; e.g. the machine gun, would have a similar effect.