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> The guy he murdered was a cog in the wheel who was doing his job (like many of us are) within the system that has been established

The cog deemed most important by everyone and who got the most money for his cog-services, where all other cogs were following that one cog, a kind of master cog. If you had to choose which cog to break to stop a machine, which cog would you select?

> Curious how many people here believe that indeed he should have been murdered?

If you can't change a system, you at least try to stop it. Should he have been murdered? No. In properly designed systems, you have fail-safes. When those fail-safes are not enough, some cogs will break, sometimes very spectacularly. That is what we have here. A system could not handle all the accrued stress and starts breaking.




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