You need to look beyond the immediate moment and concentrate on the objective.
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You want people on your side, not pissed off because you deliberately cut their food supply and other services.
Most people who want food and services are in that immediate moment and are concentrating on that objective. Take those away, and you now have enemies you do not want.
Hmm. Like the Boston Tea Party? Or the other blockades performed at that time? The ambushing of supply convoys by patriots?
I hear what you are saying. I just do not believe that that concern is relevant to the objective here.