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Old 2013-02-17, 13:46   Link #172
Vallen Chaos Valiant
Logician and Romantic
 
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 43
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Originally Posted by Reckoner View Post
I think if you look from a standpoint of justice, the Sibyl System has actually been close to perfect as possible. Society is largely safe, even if we seen crimes throughout the show, people do feel safe. This is justified by how people don't even lock their doors anymore and are generally not doubtful or mistrusting of others.
There is a big difference between being safe, and feeling safe.

The fact is the entire country is in effect a police state. So it's not that doors don't need locking anymore; it's that it makes no difference whether the door is there or not.

People feel safe not because they are safe, but because they have been lied to. They are not doubtful and is overly trusting because it makes them easier to deceive. If they have doubts in the system, they are killed. That's a selective pressure if there ever was one. Doubt and die, or trust and live.
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