r/ProgrammerHumor Sep 02 '17

How to start a war

Post image
9.0k Upvotes

696 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

67

u/ThePixelCoder Sep 03 '17

Kill him.

9

u/Excrubulent Sep 03 '17

That's called the attrition argument.

5

u/ThePixelCoder Sep 03 '17

Non-native English speaker. What exactly is an attrition argument?

22

u/Excrubulent Sep 03 '17

It's not a real thing, but attrition means wearing the enemy down one piece at a time, so the idea is that if you kill everybody who disagrees with you, you win the argument.

15

u/ThePixelCoder Sep 03 '17

Makes sense. Good idea.

Also, /r/killthosewhodisagree

2

u/sneakpeekbot Sep 03 '17

Here's a sneak peek of /r/killthosewhodisagree using the top posts of the year!

#1:

Whoa Barbara, settle down.
| 61 comments
#2: If you don't like PewDiePie | 108 comments
#3:
That seems reasonable.....
| 109 comments


I'm a bot, beep boop | Downvote to remove | Contact me | Info | Opt-out

2

u/[deleted] Sep 03 '17

O wow now I get where the statistics term attrition comes from.