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Centralizing power insures that all are dominated by the most brutal. When power is decentralized, abuses are quarantined.
by aminorex 10y ago
Centralizing power insures that all are dominated by the most brutal. When power is decentralized, abuses are quarantined.
- ch4s3 10y agoThat's a bit naive. If you look at World War 1, you see a series of decentralized conflicts and power struggles that snowballed into a global conflict killing millions.
- lightedman 10y agoIf you look at World War II you'd maybe see the point that was trying to be made.
- sp332 10y agoIt snowballed because of treaties - many secret - that linked the nations into huge sides. It was a series of "conspiracies" which were mostly not democratically decided. If Austria-Hungary had gone to war with Serbia and maybe Bulgaria, it would have been terrible but it wouldn't have been WWI.
- ch4s3 10y agoI think you're discounting the the interest the general public in Great Britain, Russia, and Turkey(Ottoman Empire) for score settling and imperial expansion. Treaties were only part of the issue. The power vacuum was a large driving force.