No, blowing up cities doesn't work, not in the long term. You've got to find something that the people in charge aren't willing to give up. A price they aren't willing to pay. Which leads us to Talis's first rule for stopping wars: make it personal.

Erin Bow
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Talis' first rule for stopping wars: make it personal. The man who said this once explained to me that he believed that the idea of "war" was too abstract for anyone to pay attention to, because nobody could really see themselves in the position of war. As an American, I grew up thinking that I was immune to war. It was something that happened in other countries, far away from us, and didn't affect us in any real way. It wasn't until I was older that I realized how wrong I had been.

Source: The Scorpion Rules

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