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I would like to say, a sad episode, an entire cult dies and there were civilians there.
However, members of this cult, these civilians attacked and invaded the territory of the sovereign empire, endangering the lives of the heads of the entire empire.
I will, however, quote yesterday's phrase that I expressed in a dialogue on a hackathon in the field of AI, it concerns corruption and bribery, but here it is very appropriate, or rather part of it:
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Because the state is not just MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, it is a system that has been built for more than one year, and not the first tens of years, it is complex and requires control.
But it is complex because all these MILLIONS OF LIVES depend on it, if the state disappears, money disappears, money disappears - the balance of power disappears, anarchy begins - death, total hunger, disease and lack of medicine, a decrease in the level of education or its complete absence, and as a result , the death of an entire nation, the death of millions of people and the murder of potentially unborn people, the murder of the potential of living people, taking away the chance of childhood from children, depriving parents of the right to freedom, protecting their family, etc., etc.
The scale of the destruction of the state is impossible to describe, but historically, all states that experienced defeat in the world race doomed their people to wandering and decades of suffering.
Take Nazi Germany and after wartime. This is total horror, you won't even see this in Saw (film). And there is no need to even embellish, these are just facts - they are historical, it is difficult to argue with them.
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If there is a cult that gives out an aura that can protect against shooting, mechanisms that turn iron into gold, any state loses the basis for the economy, everything depreciates, global inflation and the death of millions and, on the scale of the series, billions and trillions of people occur.
What we were shown was this sect of misguided cultists who upset the balance of power for everyone, they took weapons, they took shields and they took money under their own control.
After some 50 years, they would have completely destroyed the entire economy of the empire, depriving it of all opportunities to protect civilians from sectarians, from terrorism, from total war.
The decision chosen by the Emperor, after what he saw, is the only correct one, the only thing, of course, was that he could still wait and save his military man.
However, the scale of the problem, where there is a cult distributing complex technologies, auras of invulnerability, money and other things left and right, there is no time to wait, but not so much of course.
And yet, the choice was made correctly, and although this seems like a total murder of sectarians as some kind of bad act, the death of the empire is the death of billions of people, and the emperor could not afford to allow such a possibility.
The Emperor is the guarantor of life and peace in the universe, and someone declares that he will destroy his system from the inside, he is forced to defend himself - and this he does.
It makes it possible to abandon the theory, EVEN SELDON HIMSELF SAYS "Yes, indeed in theory there are paths", CAMON SELDON TURN YOUR HEAD ON, if there are so many paths, then it is impossible to have all the combinations and know they lead to one, this is a total absurdity. THE EMPEROR TELLS HIM RIGHT ABOUT THIS TO HIS FACE. But he is a fanatic, he doesn't care, he wants to know that he has power over the entire universe, his thirst for rightness puts billions of lives, billions of unborn beings at stake. He is a radical sectarian, and when the Emperor sees that everyone around him sincerely does not understand what they are doing, they sincerely do not suspect what kind of apocalypse in the universe Seldon is preparing them for, he has no choice.
A very difficult series.
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