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The perpetual development cycle of attacks and defenses: weapons create a threat environment, which new armour technologies are created to protect against, which in turn new weapons are developed to circumvent. Virus begets Antivirus that has to keep up with new viral signatures. AI slop prompts AI detection tools and circumvention methods.
So long as assholes continue to exist, anti-asshole-strategies will need to contend with their unwillingness to just fucking respect other people's boundaries and wishes.
I mean, which boundaries and wishes are reasonable is itself a disagreed on concept. In warfare usually both sides are assholes.
I don't think that generalises well. There are many wars where there is an aggressor and a defender.
Like 99% of the recorded ones are going to be one empire or feudal lord fighting another. History was just like that until the last couple hundreds of years.
Since then, there's been a few much more clear-cut cases, like WWII or Ukraine, but those are unusual. There's still been a lot of asshole-on-asshole fights like WWI, or Russia vs. Japan, or Iran vs. Iraq.