What's that you say? Never deal with a dragon? Chummer, if a wizworm involves you in its intricate plots, you'll have no choice in the matter. You'll either deal or be its next meal.
—Dragons of the Sixth World (Shadowrun 3rd Edition) blurb.
Treaties of Peace [...] differ from ordinary treaties, and from private contracts, in respect to the position of the contracting parties, who, from the necessities of the case, do not enter them upon equal terms.
This in no respect detracts from their obligatory character, which cannot be too strongly insisted upon. Agreements entered into by an individual while under duress are void, because it is for the welfare of society that they should be so. If they were binding, the timid would be constantly forced by threats or violence into a surrender of their rights, and even into secrecy as to the oppression under which they were suffering. The [knowledge] that such engagements are void makes the attempt to extort them one of the rarest of human crimes. On the other hand, the welfare of society requires that the engagements entered into by a nation under duress should be binding; for, if they were not so, wars would terminate only by the utter subjugation and ruin of the weaker party.
