Shrapnel. It just sounds so…. flinty-hard Germanic, almost brittle, almost onomatopoeic. Say it. You can just hear a German soldier say, “Watch out for zee SHRAPNEL!” “Acch! Hans was torn apart by zee shrap-nel!” You can picture little jagged pieces of metal flying out, flaying flesh.
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Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian writer and patent attorney in Houston, Texas. He has published widely on various areas of libertarian legal theory and on legal topics such as intellectual property law and international law. His publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, 2023), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), and International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020).
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