That reminds me of the police tests with non-lethal weapons. One of the ones they had for riot (where riot ~= non-violent protest) control is a giant tube and a truck full of a sticky, ofamy gel. At first, it worked beautifully, but then people realized that it had a bad habit of smothering the prote^H^H^H^H^H^H rioters.
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
---Friedrich Nietzsche
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