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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

The Crowd Is More Sympathetic Than Enlightenment Rulers Want

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If the person doesn't think they're going straight to heaven as long as they co operate, they don't cooperate as much. The other thing that happens is that people who are absolutely out of their minds terrified, are more of a problem too. Emotionally, i mean, the crowd can be vicious and want to see blood, but part of why they're going for this event is that it is an amazing human drama. It's not just watching people be killed, it's watching everything,. As we quoted from the freedland piece, i mean most intimate moments of someone's life and death.

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