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A comment on The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms for Syrian Rebels. Parent comment

Re:The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms... by vosper on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @11:44AM (#15239391)
Nations are just groups of people, but I agree with you. I'm not generally in favour of applying terms like sociopathic to large groups.
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Re:The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms... by ellius on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @11:51AM (#15239460)
Saying anything is "just a group" of its constituent parts is misleading and incorrect. Behaviors emerge at system levels that are not present among individual "parts."
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