To reiterate: they are very intentional about this whole approach. They have a hands-on training, they nip asshole authoritarianism in the people — and they do •not• give people guns or punishment power “just in case.”
They don’t do that because •it would ruin the whole approach•. You can’t just have a human conversation with somebody who has the power lurking in the wings to threaten your freedom or your life if you step out of their lines. That approach doesn’t work.
Their approach does.
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