Tao Te Ching Chapter 74
the short of it: You can’t scare people who aren’t afraid of death, with death…
Applied Taoism
Laozi, Wang Bi. 1999. The Classic of the Way and VIrtue: A New Translation of the Tao-te ching of Laozi as Interpreted by Wang Bi. Translated by Richard John Lynn. New York: Columbia University Press.