It works for people, too. If Person A turns submissive when Person B gets bullying, and B’s response is to get even more bullying as a result, that will cause increased submissiveness from A, then increased bullying from B, resulting in increased submissiveness again, until eventually you have a fatal level of aggression from B. Normally it doesn’t get that far, because no one exists within a vacuum. Person C interrupts A and B. Cold wars can be best stopped by the wild card of a third country, or an external crisis. On this spaceship, there is no third spacefarer. Especially if we’re now
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