The first seems more an apt description from what we witnessed.
They were given a singular goal to follow, and it might not have taken much for a stronger willed source to... push such a directive until there was little else. In which case, their own lives were not even a priority so much as 'getting in'.
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They were given a singular goal to follow, and it might not have taken much for a stronger willed source to... push such a directive until there was little else. In which case, their own lives were not even a priority so much as 'getting in'.