ARGUMENT IS WAR.

[scottopic]

[Poll #1191550]

Defend Your Position.

Comments

[martinhesselius.livejournal.com]

Perimeter (hu)manned!

[i-am-devilbunny.livejournal.com]

Hey leave my hubby out of this! =^_^=

[martinhesselius.livejournal.com]

*Grin*
I thought he liked being in the middle?

[i-am-devilbunny.livejournal.com]

Oh.....You!!!!!
=^_^=

[theinnocence.livejournal.com]

it won't let me select both :(

[rhino777.livejournal.com]

i just did...

[bedivere.livejournal.com]

I am in an undisclosed location.

[i-am-devilbunny.livejournal.com]

Can't answer without details.
One should never make decisions of that magnitude without information...
That said, I would prefer to advocate war from a defensive position.

[jaydedone.livejournal.com]

The proposition is a Mistaken Reversal.

All wars are arguments. Not all arguments are wars.

[skiadaimonos.livejournal.com]

funny since i was going to say "not all wars require actual arguments."

[jaydedone.livejournal.com]

*grin* Depends on what you call an actual argument. A spoken one, no. But if you go with argument being a dispute, pretty much all wars, by definition, are just that.

I love looking up etymologies on such things so...

"arguere" - to make clear.

Yeah, I'd say war clears up who owns what parcel of land or gets to set up the rules all right. Well, at least from the pov of the folks waging it. ;-)

[skiadaimonos.livejournal.com]

keke keke
the etymology of "war" is what had in mind too.

But say, theoretically and totally hypothetically for example, it is possible to have war to determine which commercial establishments get defense funds, but that would not necessarily entail a dispute.....

[jaydedone.livejournal.com]

True, but regardless of the -true- motivations of the war, it, by definition, has to have a dispute or conflict that the action ultimately attempts to resolve, even if the dispute/conflict is largely a pretextual one.

Or, modeling further upon the hypothesis you've offered, the war "makes clear" which commercial establishments get funds and which ones don't. After all, unless every single one out there gets funding via the war, there's necessarily an uncertainty made clear by the action. ;-)

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

Can you guess which book I'm reading right now? :P

[i-am-devilbunny.livejournal.com]

Knowing you, the possibilities are endless.
Random stab at the bibliophile index....Red Badge Of Courage :)

[sassysmile.livejournal.com]

ARGUMENT IS REALLY GOOD SEX!

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

I like where this thread is going.

[i-am-devilbunny.livejournal.com]

Sex or argument?

[cappadocius.livejournal.com]

Ex Nihilo arguments are superb.

[orangecone.livejournal.com]

INFIDEL!

*stab*

[okfineverygood.livejournal.com]

Seems stretchy to me, and anyway it seems like a first rhetorical step toward legitimizing some other dubious metaphors -

* Business is War
* Love is a Battlefield
* "WWF Raw is War"
* etc.

[morbid-o.livejournal.com]

I've lost an argument, but I'll never lose a war.

[morbid-o.livejournal.com]

"lost"

[adrienmundi]

I respectfully sidestep your position, while pointing and laughing.

[scottopic.livejournal.com]

DAMNit!