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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9835884" data-attributes="member: 78087">I think they’d find it very easy to get leverage on Superman. Even if there is no Kryptonite, they’d find out quite quickly who he is and who his loved ones are, what he cares about, etc. - that would be an absolute immediate priority. Once such leverage is found, they would try to use it.It’s not about who the PM is - it’s about the intelligence services. In my experience (I’ve known a couple) these are people who have served as the suspicion of the nation for decades, who think they’re more clever than anyone else, and who have very few professional standards and a lot of frustration about budget cuts, larger powers, and how little they’re paid. They will have developed and cultivated personal and cultural foibles such as racism and nationalism. Given an unprecedented Christmas present and/or disruption like a Superman they can maybe control, their reaction will vary between unholy glee and enraged paranoia (the latter is more likely if Superman is a woman or not white). Either way, it’s a terrible idea to trust them with this.(Obviously, threatening Superman is a bad idea - you either end up with one-time reluctant obedience or outright rebellion, and then you decide to do something stupid as a warning, and then who knows what will happen - but I suspect it’s a bad idea they can’t actually conceive as working out badly because they’re too fixated on the potential reward. They can’t actually conceive the loss framing so they’ll go with the gain framing.)</blockquote>

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