intermediateSecurity: RBAC, Service Accounts & Pod Security Standards

Why is RBAC described as purely additive with no explicit deny?

A subject's effective permissions are the union of every Role/ClusterRole bound to it. There is no deny rule type. Anything not explicitly granted is denied by omission.

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