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Terr_yesterday at 9:57 PM0 repliesview on HN

> Stop treating [them as] unconstrained, above-the-law actors.

With apologies to Baudelaire: The greatest trick exploitative powers ever played was convincing the people that it was impossible to imagine anything else.

Sometimes blinkering people so that they never ask the question "why is this being done to me" or "why is justice not possible" is much easier than finding an answer that will get them to go away.