When, therefore, the above-mentioned request for help from the Megapolitans reached Athens in 352, Demosthenes expressed himself in favour of complying with it, especially emphasizing the necessity of not allowing Sparta to become too powerful.

He had a Hobbist vision of ‘the whole world consuming in the fire of envy one against another’, from which quietism was the only escape.

A few years after that, Mikhail Gorbachev effectively surrendered in a cold war that had lasted almost four decades, and in a few more years the Berlin Wall came down. Game, set, match.

Irrelevant. The persons whose behavior is described in my posts are numbered alt.atheists. No matter how many alt.atheists don't do X, the fact that two or more do X enables me to truthfully say that alt.atheists do X. As I showed in my example, you are the one making the generalization based upon the specifics. I am consistently referring to specifics.