To deny benefit would create significant cognitive dissonance. Only a particularly inept leader could fail under these circumstances. I suggest that if we examine the internal evidence available on est, we shall discover a serious and alarming inconsistency. While avowing the goal of responsibility assumption, est is at the same time extraordinarily heavily structured. No one is permitted to go to the bathroom except at the four-hour bathroom breaks.
Name tags are to be worn at all times.
Chairs are not to be moved. Members are not permitted to eat except at widely spaced meal breaks and are required to turn over snacks hidden in their pockets. Many est graduates volunteer to be nonpaid assistants and, judging from their description of their experiences, are enormously exhilarated by the act of giving up their autonomy and basking in the powerful rays of authority. My next task was to arrange the name tags. They had to be ten in a vertical row, not touching, in perfect parallel columns.