Random thoughts just popped in my head and I just remembered that all the water in a given city is all centralized. Just add poison and boom, eradicated an entire city who are full of dissidents/opposition as punishment for voting the “wrong” way, or for a protest, or if the population is filled with “filthy undesirable [Insert Racial Group Here]”, or something like that.

Kinda unsettling to see that we are all just attached to “the grid” 😖

  • Passion_ai@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Yeah, there are systems in place — water is tested regularly, and lots of people are involved, so it’d be hard to secretly poison it without someone noticing. But if a government is evil enough to try something like that, they’d probably use other methods anyway. Most real-life atrocities happen through laws, force, and fear — not movie-style poison plots. What really stops it is people paying attention and speaking up.