People don't riot unless they are told to. The masses do nothing without the ok from their masters. The reason is simple, if someone wants break a law, they won't do it with confidence unless they know that other people will support them, and protect them from the consequences of breaking the law. Without that assurance of safety or strength in numbers, the result of the first person who breaks the rules is two forms of death, the first being the obvious death of their freedom, and the second being the death of their reputation, the image of themselves in the eye of the public. There's also a third consequence that is even worse, and thus more effective as a deterrent, in that their rulebreaking behavior will also incur negative consequences to anyone associated with their act of defiance, harming the cause or reasons for which they were motivated to break the rules.
There was a story about a community of mice who were repeatedly attacked in the night by a cat, the leader of the mice was clever and came up with a solution, if they were to place a bell on the cat's neck, then the mice would be alerted by the sound of the bell, ans they could use the warning to hide themselves away before the attacks. But the mice had a problem, someone had to put a bell on the cat, and while this was a feat that a group of mice could easily accomplish, some members of that group would undoubtedly die in the process, everyone was in agreement that someone should do it, and that any sacrifices would be very much worthwhile for the good produced by the act, but no 9ne was willing to be the one to put their lives at risk in order to bell the cat.
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