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I think it is just local interpretation. I used to work with a guy who thought if a sentence contained the word "are" that it was then a question.

"Are you going to do that?"
"Where are you?"

He didn't have an audible response when I said.

"You are out of your mind."

So maybe in the writer's local culture, saying "should" implied "have to".
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