Status-order warfare is regulated because elites benefit from the existing order and avoid tactics that could unleash social revolution.
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"was leading sickly the Laying siege to a city and the people inside were starving to death Which is what you do in a..."
"they still a lot of intermarriage between them There's still a lot of trade a lot of communication so these states are not trying..."
"That's all Athens had to do. But Athens never did that. Because by doing that, you would disrupt the social order from which Athens..."
"...have too many people who want these too few positions of elite status in which they can extract rent from everyone else. So in..."
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