Really good!

well written, and very sad, because too often true and accurate.

Too bad that each individual does not ask WHY before entering a fray.

For life and liberty, never giving the 1st offense, never for 'revenge' or to steal the life, liberty or property of another. Those are the rules of a just war.

thanks for sharing

Interesting start not sure where it is going or is it a one shot?

I liked how you started this and am very much looking forward to what will come next.

Ah. But one man's terrorist _is_ another man's freedom fighter--if you win. Ask Menachem Begin and Jomo Kenyatta about that...oh, yes, and Benjamin 'if we do not hang together we shall certainly hang separately' Franklin.

If you demonize a certain segment of people long enough, they will, unsurprisingly enough, live down to others' beliefs. Tom Riddle should have given the Marauders a prize--they were his best recruiters.

Great start! I like the rhetorical devices that frame the philosophical question. Looking forward to more!

Wow. This is amazing!
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How sad.

This is not a story but an "expository lump". Worse, it has a patently false and leftist philosophy of conflict that is presented as unchallenged truth.

While it *might* be true that many do not know why they fight; many *do* know, and certainly *true* freedom fighters do.

That leftist lie about "One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter" is cliché as well as patently false. As a throwaway statement, it serves only to alienate readers, even if they are fooled by it.

It is strangely beautiful and yet barbaric how well you seem to understand war.

I am looking to where is story is going to go.

Curious and an interesting shortfic here, and a pov we don't usually see at times.