This world, this society, was free.
You could express any opinion you wanted, and no one would stop you.
But the people who made up society were not necessarily as free in their thoughts as they were in their actions.
You could say whatever you believed, but if you were not some extraordinary big shot, your words might hurt others.
No one would actually taste dog shit just because you said, "Dog shit tastes like chocolate." What you said was your freedom.
But if you were a big shot, such as a senator in Congress, you had to consider whether your "freedom" would interfere with someone else's "freedom."
As far as the team leader was concerned, plenty of people died in this world every day anyway. As long as it created benefits for him, a few deaths were worth it.
It was just like the policies they had implemented in Maliro. At the beginning, countless people died every day.
Those branded as "traitors" who migrated south to seek refuge with the Federation were stopped on the road by warlords, who then sent them back into God's embrace.
Did the people migrating south and the warlords not know this was a conspiracy by the Federation? They had lured huge numbers of farming peasants away from their original lands with profits and made them migrate south.
Didn't they know?
No! They knew!
The farmers knew, and the warlords knew, but they had no better way to deal with these problems.
The farmers wanted a little more money and greater safety, while the military merely wanted people to farm for them. And so the conflict was born.
Did the Federal politicians who created all these conflicts and caused countless innocent civilians to be killed feel guilty?
Perhaps they did in front of the