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it also reminds me of the cliched cowboy showdown at noon where one says to the other “this town is not big enough for the two of us”.
sometimes a house is not big enough for two people to co-exist, sometimes a small town, but usually anything bigger than that it’s pretty easy for people who hate each other’s guts to avoid each other. at the most extreme, the world is big enough for the two of them. would you rather they put distance between each other, or force them to coexist until they tear each other apart or only one survives?

but that only makes sense in the context of discussing these fantasy scenarios like bolo. between anarchists, usually the stakes are as low as a heated argument that they rather not have again, so they choose not to have it with each other again. there is no magical plot framing that can force them to try getting along.