A man in red leaped to his feet, this one tall and broad-shouldered with dark skin and a gray beard. “The threat of force as a deterrent is rarely an effective policy,” he said. “It's been researched quite thoroughly in papers by-”
“Hundred-year-old sociology experiments do not concern me,” Dusep shot back. “Academics can make whatever claims they like, but simple common sense will tell you that the kind of people who would try to poison a city's water supply will only respond to one thing.
“Consider your hypothesis, Councilor,” the man went on. “There is no poverty to be alleviated; these Sons of Savard are not destroying critical pieces of city infrastructure as an act of rebellion against an oppressive economic order. In fact, they wish to create the very conditions that many soft-min
