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Steven Pressfield, Robert Greene, Jack Carr, Meg Mason, and Adam Hochschild on Writing

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

You Can't Go Around Expecting Plato's Republic

You have to understand that the other side might not be playing by the same rules that you're playing with. You know, a lot of warfare is with asymmetry, not just of weapons, but of also of ethics. When we put we're going against Vladimir Putin, these are people who have more options than we do because they're ethically not bound by the same norms that we have. There's self-imposed limitation. The self-imposed limitations are a one-way street.

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