No, this water litigation is not “war”

Water is for not fighting over?

From the OED:

war: a. Hostile contention by means of armed forces, carried on between nations, states, or rulers, or between parties in the same nation or state; the employment of armed forces against a foreign power, or against an opposing party in the state. (emphasis added)

Going to court – an institution that provides a peaceful alternative to armed conflict – is pretty much the opposite of “war”.

3 Comments

  1. I’m using this in my next letter to opposing counsel: “an institution that provides a peaceful alternative to armed conflict.”

  2. Oh, come now Fleck. Why so literal? Look at definition 1.b. ” Applied poetically or rhetorically to any kind of active hostility or contention between living beings, or of conflict between opposing forces or principles.”

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