This post is about keeping everybody's copy of the ledger the same using a process called consensus. Even if there were no gateways, there still is the problem of ledger agreement, so we'd still need consensus. Gateways and consensus are orthogonal. You can learn more about consensus here: https://www.stellar.org/learn/explainers/#Consensus
Disregarding how "much more reasonable" this interpretation is, there's a lot of space between "no physical force" and "something she only felt bad about after things ended". Jumping to the latter conclusion and implying promiscuity on her part ("because who's counting!") is completely unfair.
We should presume that Mr. Nazre is innocent and not attack his character. We should also do the same for Ms. Pao.
This post is about keeping everybody's copy of the ledger the same using a process called consensus. Even if there were no gateways, there still is the problem of ledger agreement, so we'd still need consensus. Gateways and consensus are orthogonal. You can learn more about consensus here: https://www.stellar.org/learn/explainers/#Consensus