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   * The difference between the meaning of words and the reality one is trying to describe //using// these words.
-For me, the first part is what matters. I want to depict concepts and how they interact - call it "mechanics" or "dynamics". For that I don't need exact words, I need people to understand what I mean. I will strive for maximum accuracy in this regard. "War" and "Proxy War" are both terms to describe what happened in Vietnam, but I am not going to write proxy war. While, yes, "proxy war" will more accurately reflect the nature of the war that happened, what I **want** to communicate is that people died in a fight they were sent into by a government for political purposes. That there is actually one more government in the chain does not matter at all because the important part here is the people dying and the reason they died for ("Government wants!" is the reason and "But not THIS government, it was the other government!" being irrelevant). At the end of the day, it's a war all over again.
+For me, the first part is what matters. I want to depict concepts and how they interact - call it "mechanics" or "dynamics". For that I don't need exact words, I need people to understand what I mean. I will strive for maximum accuracy in this regard. "War" and "Proxy War" are both terms to describe what happened in Vietnam, but I am not going to write proxy war. While, yes, "proxy war" will more accurately reflect the nature of the war that happened, what I **want** to communicate is that people died in a fight they were sent into by a government for political purposes. That there is actually one more government in the chain does not matter at all because the important part here is the people dying and the reason they died for ("Government wants!" is the reason and "But not THIS government, it was the other government!" being irrelevant). At the end of the day, it's a war all over again. It seems like people love to use words as a distraction, a smokescreen, to argue about trivialities without ever needing to address the actual arguments that are tried to be put forth.
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