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but I think his quote is quite moving:
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"One of the many reasons I don't want to bomb the Japanese
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is that they built my minivan."
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And the idea is he has economic codependence with these people.
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They're a different group. He might want to kill them under normal circumstances
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but the interdependence gives rise to a moral connection.
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Thomas Friedman proposed the "Golden Arches Theory of Human Conflict,"
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which said that no two countries
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which each have a McDonald's will ever go to war
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because McDonald's forces global interdependence.
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This was falsified in the NATO bombing of, I think, Sarajevo
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NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization