I was thinking about the statement in your original post "It depends on intention" -- although admittedly I was stretching it a bit.

Bitcoin should always be at war. That's the nature of a permissionless system. If its concepts only work when people agree on everything, then it's not very useful.

I think it is useful, though. It's useful because it gives humans a way to agree even when they disagree about almost everything.

The only thing required of a person in order to use bitcoin is to agree to accept it. But this is also the only tool we have to actually enforce the rules (and call a transaction invalid) -- don't accept the coin if you don't like it.