Re: Food Checkout Week

Kip Williams <kiptw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>> Kip Williams <kiptw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>>>> That strikes me as a much more reasonable way to have a war:
>>>> Designate various people on both sides as troops, but don't
>>>> actually fight.  Instead, simply track them, and see which country
>>>> the last survivor lives in.  That country is declared the victor.

>>> Like nobody's going to cheat on that one.

>> What, you mean someone might come over and kill them?

>> Such a hostile action would mean war!

> Only if it didn't look like an accident or something -- hence my use
> of the word "cheat."

Making the deaths of all the remaining soldiers look like an accident
or natural causes isn't plausible until there are only a tiny number
of soldiers remaining.  By then the two sides should no longer be
hostile to each other, as history has long since moved on.
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