#6.2: extreme arms control
"He held the introduction of firearms to be an unfair innovation on the rules of lawful war."
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War is the father of everything, said Heraclitus. The law of nations is the law of war and everything else. [Go back to #6.1.]
Nearly half of Vattel is about war. Peace to Vattel is a special case of war. Peace is not the mystic union it became in the 20th century, but mere neutral cooperation. Peace is not friendship, but neighborhood. And every plot in…