Someone who talks like that, according to the System, may represent a potential security risk to the wider nation, a refusenik culture which, if significant numbers were to follow its lead, would imply the end of the Witness and the System, the end of the benign, stable, all-seeing state we all inhabit. There is no present risk of that actually happening: they are—we are—cracks in the wall, and maintenance is one of the ten commandments of good engineering. By the time the cracks widen and there is water flowing through them, the wall will already be beyond repair.