They did not ask. I proposed it, because I am afraid. And then I stepped back and told them no, no. But I have been asking myself: what if the slide into horror is inevitable? What if that is the turning of the tide? In that case, is it not better to protect people from consequences than to say full steam ahead and hope that at the far end, when enough suffering has happened, someone will make something good from the wreckage? The first duty of the state is to protect. If it does not do that, it does nothing.