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There is a certain kind of person who loves the word “should.” He speaks it the way some people hold a glass of expensive brandy: slowly, warmly, with the confident air of a man who will not be asked to wash the cup afterward. “They should have rebelled,” he says, and the sentence lands with a satisfying click, as if the matter has been filed, stamped, and resolved.

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