Common decency would be a natural deterrent in a reasonable world, but we're talking about whether or not some of the most useless people on the planet will or will not, at the behest of their masters, go absolute chimpanzee just for the sake of it. The outcome has always been set in stone. What America needs to do is to mold society in such a way that the usual suspects have no choice but to get their shit together if they want to be able to afford to live. The band-aid needs to be ripped off. The powers that be will never allow it to happen, though. Authoritarianism will increase all over the world in the near future. I don't like doompills and such, but it's pretty easy to see the logical conclusions of what the current trend of society is heading towards. There's always hope though, and who knows, maybe what is happening needs to happen. A forest fire is both inevitable and necessary every once in a while. It sucks for those who have to live through it, of course, and I don't expect nor wish for them to take too kindly to the process.
I mean, sorry to barge into a thread about the trial of Derek Chauvin and unleash my inner Guy Fawkes-mask anon sperg, but it is what it is.