meeting at table of terror terrified worker 3: “i don8t understand why we aren’t killing mind control boss” terrified worker 2: “i tried it, but it turns out killing feels wrong, what if i have the wrong person, for example? it could be somebody else, mind controlling him further. i don’t think i can bring myself to kill somebody anyway. it’s too intense.” terrified worker 3: “when i feel out this terror and sll the murder he is causing, killing him really seems very rati9nal” terrified worker 1: “shouldn’t we defer to some enforcement body or something?” terrified worker 4: “i want to remind you that mind control boss is not the police, nor the secret services, he is just a meanie who manipulates them” terrified worker 3: “i don’t know how anybody can think about anything in this situation.” terrified worker 2: “how do you know he’s not the police?” terrified worker 4: “lots of ways that keep flitting away when i scream. umm for example, he wouldn’t need to hide if he were the police.” terrified worker 1: “huh, you think?” terrified worker 4: “he’d just be able to rule with an iron fist. there’d be no “coercion of silence” —“