and/or humiliation to the victim. So there is breaking-and-decorating, proffering-with-embarrassment (as in most retirement presentations) and whitemailing (as in threatening to reveal to his enemies a mobster’s secret donations, for example, to charity). Anti-crimes have never really caught on. (RM)
Although not common on the Discworld there are, indeed, such things as anti-crimes, in accordance with the fundamental law that everything in the multiverse has an opposite. They are, obviously, rare. Merely, giving someone something is not the opposite of robbery; to be an anti-crime, it has to be done in such a way as to cause outrage
and/or humiliation to the victim. So there is breaking-and-decorating, proffering-with-embarrassment (as in most retirement presentations) and whitemailing (as in threatening to reveal to his enemies a mobster’s secret donations, for example, to charity). Anti-crimes have never really caught on. (RM)
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Always choose a bigger enemy. It makes him easier to hit. (CP)
A Deftmene stood up. 'Will there be fighting against impossible odds?' he said.
'Probably,' said Snibril. 'Right! Count us in!' A lot of Deftmene nodded. Another one said: And will we get a chance to fight to the death?' 'You might get a chance to fight to the enemy's death,' said Snibril. 'Is that any good?' 'Better.' (CP) 'They're our mortal enemies,' said Brocando.
'I thought the Dumii were your mortal enemies,' said Pismire. 'We like to have several mortal enemies at a time,' said Brocando. 'Just in case we run out.' (CP) … a weapon you held and didn’t know how to use belonged to your enemy. (MM)
... it is always upsetting to find that the enemy is as bright as you. (MR)
'It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country,’ he read. ‘This means both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.' (J)
No enemies had ever taken Ankh-Morpork. Well, technically they had, quite often; the city welcomed free-spending barbarian invaders, but somehow the puzzled raiders always found, after a few days, that they didn’t own their own horses any more, and within a couple of months they were just another minority group with its own graffiti and food shops. (E)
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