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		p-e-w on Sept 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive he... Those protect the building, not individual people. Nobody carries around mobile lightning rods, even though they were invented centuries ago.

tumult on Sept 27, 2023 [–]

It protects the people in the building. Likewise, arresting a serial killer protects anyone they would have killed next.

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