humans are funny creatures. you can lie to them, injure them, and impose insane and arbitrary rules upon them while forcing them to harm themselves and stunning numbers just sort of shrug it off.
you can show them all manner of harm and poor risk reward and biological phraud, and it rolls off like water from a duck’s back…
you can even outright damage people for life and they will be so raddled with stockholm syndrome that they will ramble that they would happily do it again, not even to “keep people safe” but so that “they could see people” in open and telling admission that they will gladly sacrifice freedom and bodily integrity upon the altar of “buying back a right to free association that should already have been inalienable” when faced with authoritarian pressure…
… but the funny things is somehow, despite all this, you show them a whiff of corporate financial impropriety and it’s suddenly
