Julia Jones wrote:

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The problems are all problems of social control - coercion, brainwashing and drugging all being available to the Federation and fairly widespread in their use.

My thought was that these techniques may not be very useful where you want more than a drugged drone, and a limiter might be useful in such cases.

No. Because a limiter is designed to limit not to pacify.

It's never stated outright, but what we see in The Way Back

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suggests that the suppressant drugs in use at that point had the irritating side-effect of leaving people unable to think about *anything*,

No. That's just natural human behaviour.

Jenny

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