I can think of another institution this can apply to when a man (or men) with control issues are permitted to led with no checks.
"They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now, what are they? Men at all? Or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power? .......
The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies....
In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgement or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well." (Henry David Thoreau. Civil Disobedience.)
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