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Power is taken not given. This is why highly competent sociopaths are magnetically attracted to founding and leading large corporations and running for public o
by crmd 4y ago
Power is taken not given. This is why highly competent sociopaths are magnetically attracted to founding and leading large corporations and running for public office. Once in power they use their influence in ways that harms society but helps themselves. I don’t see how a society populated by humans could survive without institutions to protect humanity from the tyrants amongst our own.
- dane-pgp 4y ago> institutions to protect humanity But why do those institutions have to be armed? In theory, if corporations were under sufficiently vigilant democratic control, and the electoral/political system meant that leaders and policies reflected the best interests of most people, then sociopaths would have their power taken from them the moment they tried to wield it in an inappropriate way.
- goodpoint 4y agoAn armed organization to "protect us from bad people" sounds like the mob.