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Jonathan Crane ([personal profile] restingstitchface) wrote in [personal profile] backendbat 2025-06-22 03:23 am (UTC)

Everybody uses fear to manipulate people. Children are taught right from wrong not through empathy but punishment. The fear of facing consequences for breaking rules arises soon as we turn two years old. While we are still learning to walk.

So yes. "Decent folk" do use those fears.

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