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This is a rather cryptic comment.

Are you saying there's some sort of group or club where you pay 15 cents for a mask and then put it on to get well-acquainted to psycologically aberrant individuals from a comfortable distance before they go prison?

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It's not cryptic, just completely OT in a tech forum. He means the price of a bullet.

Not so! A .22LR cartridge is less than three cents when purchased in any reasonable quantity.

Fifteen cents is roughly the cost of a small informational pamphlet (likely more if printed with color and laminated but I have taken some artistic liberty in my previous comment), and prison is just one solution to a wider class of social impairments of which sociopathy is just one instance. Other instances of solutions share the quality of being unpleasant but necessary things any civilized society devotes energy to by learned necessity and include a functioning constitution, military, legislature, courts, police, and more. I thought this was clear but on rereading I see maybe I have failed; thanks for asking.

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