These wars are often determined by numbers and simple techniques of self-defence or aggression rather than by superior skills, high technology or enhanced training.
Their intercellular interactions are extremely important in the complex immunological self-defence system of humans and animals.
Coalition systems2 are based on sets of arguments that defend each other against counter-arguments by banding together for self-defence.
Militaries represented one of the cornerstones of national sovereignty based as they were on rights to national self-defence.
The police defended their actions by simply noting that in most instances they were acting in self-defence and were fired upon first.
We have it as a sociocultural organisation and at the same time, an organisation that will prepare for self-defence.
It asserted that it was iniquitous to inflict suffering on any sentient being, except when self-defence or absolute necessity could be justified.
In our view, the consideration that the partner might die is probably not so easily triggered, because of self-defence coping mechanisms.