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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' has a lot of this, both to prevent [[Eight Deadly Words|slide into hopeless boring gloom]] and due to [[Armed with Canon|internal disagreements]].
** In the Imperium it's implemented using its sheer size and variety. thus, some Inquisitors will purge you with fire for ''possibly'' seeing a daemon or other warp-spawn, while some may recruit after a brief interview or just order to keep quiet about it and move on. Some Commissars will blow a soldier's brain out for lacking excessive enthusiasm, others manage to avoid summary executions even when they're supposed to do so and ''only'' lead by example instead. Some commanders just [[We Have Reserves|send their troops into meatgrinder]] (it's ''explicitly'' discouraged officially, but the practice varies), others anything but. Some of the Space Marines see the mere humans as highly expendable, others will risk themselves to save one civilian. And so on.
** With the Eldar, variability is ensured by the isolated communities each with their own history and inclinations, while influential individuals who lived for thousand years can be quirky as hell.
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