However, if in its basest Wikipedia definition war is a large-scale armed conflict, claiming that we are at cyberwar seems to be a sensationalist approach at best.

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According to the books, "human beings pushed to the limit -- people who have been reduced to their basest instincts to survive -- are far more terrifying than any zombie, " she said.

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This line of argument gets us all nowhere very fast and fails to acknowledge that people who rape or are driven to drooling uncontrollably at the sight of a female thigh with which they are not well acquainted are provoked only by the demons in their own heads and pander to their basest natures.

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Staring at the photos of male stars caught with pot bellies, or female stars without makeup, in bikinis when they should be in a one-piece, with baby weight gains, experiencing the inevitable ravages aging, or the grotesque effects of having been fully Botoxed, I felt I would be supporting tabloid-ism in its basest form.

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