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   "text": "As members constantly probe the edge of acceptable behavior, policing the rules becomes more expensive, the rules become divorced from the shared goals, and relationships become brittle and formal instead of warm and loose.",
   "abstract": "As members constantly probe the edge of acceptable behavior, policing the rules becomes more expensive. The rules become divorced from the shared goals. Relationships become brittle and formal instead of warm and loose.",
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   "text": "A centralized hierarchy becomes too rigid when those policing the rules gain more power than the members who honor the transcendental value that originally founded the organization, and the spirit of the law should always reign above the letter of the law.",
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