In a way that Americans only rarely understand, a more distant relationship makes sense in the context of contemporary British culture and politics.

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Our town police are well paid and polite and they are not very different from the rest of us in their distant relationship to crime.

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Your distant social relationship is maintained, but neither of you have to keep the other in your 150 cognitive limit.

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