> last resort of the impotent The quote goes "[…] last resort of the incompetent", see <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Foundation_(1951) https://en

> last resort of the impotent The quote goes "[…] last resort of the incompetent", see <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Foundation_(1951) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Foundation_(1951)>. Impotent does not make sense here, the state is actually the entity that society grants the greatest power: monopoly of violence and decisions over medical autonomy and life and death.