“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.”
-T. J.
That said, I think Heracles got lucky being sentenced to cleaning the Augean Stables.
Informing normies is much, much ickier, and we don't have demigod powers...
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2024-04-17 00:17:25
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