not if the bugger is a sociopath.
Discussion
It’s exactly the outliers that consensus checks, whether with violence or math.
what happens when sociopathy isn't an outlier.
Interesting: the most vulnerable minority is always the individual. On the one hand.
On the other hand: If the incentives are right (objective ledger of history, for instance), consensus will prune for justice. It won’t matter how many evil bastards opine, the code will not budge and the proof of work will out over low time preference deception.