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> the example of the king who builds a secret escape tunnel: What happens to the engineers who know about the tunnel? he asks, making the point that there will
by AlbertCory 4y ago
> the example of the king who builds a secret escape tunnel: What happens to the engineers who know about the tunnel? he asks, making the point that there will always be someone who knows your secrets.
Not always. When Genghis Khan died, Marco Polo's legend (not universally believed) says they got a bunch of slaves to bury him somewhere, then killed them all, and then the people who killed them were themselves killed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burial_place_of_Genghis_Khan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burial_place_of_Genghis_Khan
- dogma1138 4y agoWho killed those who killed the ones who killed those who killed the ones who killed the slaves?
- anonymouskimmer 4y agoAs long as they aren't yapping the location to their killers, you really only need to kill one round of people. The second round of killings was already overkill.
- AlbertCory 4y agoprops for using "overkill"
- anonymouskimmer 4y agoThanks.
- dragonwriter 4y agoThe first round of killings were probably done by people who had a general idea of where the burial took place, since the slaves probably couldn’t be unsupervised long. The next round could take place further away, since the soldier could probably be more relied on to follow orders and return to a known location when they had completed their task.
- albertop 4y agoAt this point it does not matter.