Inadvertantly Insightful Answers

A friend on facebook (H/T to PT) put on his status the following, apparently for a basic IR essay or exam:

"Without security the state would seize to exist."

Now, this can be read two ways: that the student completely mistook seize with cease; or the student was very sharp and was deliberately or intuitively channeling a strident form of realism that asserts that states are compelled by insecurity to increase their power--seize territory in order to exist.  

I have no similar examples, but we thought the Spew readers might have some.  Or not.