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We found out that keeping people homeless to die of exposure slowly was much more effective at keeping the majority in line.


No one is actively trying to keep people homeless or watch them die on the streets, much less use that as a lesson to keep people in line. Drawing and quartering is way more scary and effective if you want to make people obey. You're just mixing nihilistic bitterness with outright nonsense.




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