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What stance does Utopia take on acts of war? What about acts of Shakespeare plays? Or random acts of kindness? This video will answer at least one of these act-related questions.
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Thank you We sneak in Dystopian literature Utopian war last
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month What stance tas utopia take on acts of war
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utopians are pretty much against violence except when absolutely necessary
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and they want to be friendly to other nations So
- 00:25
basically nations will declare war on utopia when they're jealous
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of what they have when they want their resource is
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or their land But utopia never declares war on anyone
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else and in fact they're much quicker to ally themselves
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with other nearby nations If they have problems and then
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you know the utopians will fight as much as they
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have to They usually win because you know they're superior
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in every way and when they do win they don't
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take much of ah like bounty from the other people
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They don't pillage their communities or anything they only take
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as much as they need to pay for the cost
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of fighting the war They're very fair and then they
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go back to their lives Women can fight in their
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wars it's really weirdly progressive model of warfare but for
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the most part they would just prefer to avoid it
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