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Torchlight

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2. The agents are afraid of being held accountable for their behavior.

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Tue Feb 3, 2026, 04:47 PM

4 hrs ago

Greed may be humanity’s greatest flaw, but fear of accountability follows closely behind it, I think. In government, this combination produces little more than waste and empty paper trails lacking any measurable amount of the better parts of we are.

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