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There is a scene in Orson Scott Card’s Xenocide where an angry man stokes up the mob. At some point, the mob gets uglier than the man intended, and he unsuccessfully tries to calm it down. Then, the mob goes off and does something pretty awful, and the man feels bad. The lesson was that […]