Letter of Encouragement
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Bakir encourages pillory guards to let the crowds torment prisoners — it keeps them docile.
Some guards shoo onlookers from the pillories — a grave error, Bakir writes, for ordinary people need amusement as they need bread.
Instead, urge the crowd to mock, taunt, and throw rotten apples: the heartier their laughter, the weaker their hatred of their rulers.
