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Normal people don't personally send bone-saws out into the world, but look at the rhetoric surrounding the recent protests in the US and Hong Kong. Plenty of normal people (many mainlanders, many persons of a particular political party affiliation) are cheer-leading the rabble to get dispersed with the maximum possible application of force - and most of them don't even have any stake in either the issue being protested, or the impact of the protests themselves!

And assuming the police are normal people too, they are all too happy to carry this out.

Normal people are quite happy to endorse or inflict violence against the enemy. Most of us just aren't in a position of power to do anything about it, though, other than post on Facebook, and write angry letters to the editor.

But give that normal person power over other people and freedom from consequences... And, well, you get something quite repulsive.



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