In today's film, there is a depiction of a sexual assault, which is discussed in this episode.

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Is war fair? I mean, is it supposed to be fair? Does it have to be fair? There has to be at least one measure of fairness at the outset of any war, or otherwise we wouldn't call it a war, we'd call it a massacre.

If two or more sides are going to have a go at it and it's worth pulling up a chair and putting the kettle on for it,

then there have to be some stakes, some risks, and some rules.

I'm at war presently with the ants in my kitchen,

and even though I have overwhelming firepower and vastly superior technology, and the entire nation behind me, they consistently maintain control of the battlefield.

My kitchen, and they never falter in the face of overwhelming odds, and they seem to have an inexhaustible

resource of tiny men and material.

Is it fair?

Well, no, not to me, but I'm losing.

When I say fairness, I don't mean to suggest that it hasn't always been 100% kosher to employ

every weapon, tactic, resource, and maneuver that you can muster that your adversary didn't

expect and can't counter.

Imagine the guy who showed up with the first spear.

The guy that first got speared was like,

ouch, not fair!

But he was winding up to brain somebody with a rock and the global

watchdogs of the time, who were literally dogs, agreed that spears were new but

fair. Just because an army is bigger and better than you doesn't mean you can't still win and that the contest wasn't in the end fair

History offers plenty of examples of outnumbered and under-equipped forces winning the day.

The leveling effect of chance, weather, intelligence, cunning, and error makes war unpredictable

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