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vanessa_ca

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1. Plunder

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 13, 2026, 09:17 PM

19 hrs ago

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.".
Frédéric Bastiat

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