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Anyone who has visited planet earth and spent time here is well aware of that. The task is to prevent these people from taking and holding power. Note that the
by scaramanga 4y ago
Anyone who has visited planet earth and spent time here is well aware of that. The task is to prevent these people from taking and holding power.
Note that the strict formulation of this law (ie. "in _every_ case..") is profoundly anti-democratic in that it assumes no democracy can ever exist or function. Of course, I hope your household provides a good counter example (if not, then you should seek outside support).
Anyway, for those of us who still believe in democracy, it has long been recognised that the cost of it is that everyone has to be a adult who takes responsibility for basic things in life like maintaining the social fabric of the institutions you belong to in order to prevent them from being taken over by sociopaths.
So the question is, will we support medical professionals in doing this? In the UK, before COVID, when junior doctors went on strike to try and remedy the situation, the media denounced them as enemies of the people and they were completely crushed by the state (with the help of their own professional organisations like the BMJ). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4902702/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4902702/
- dennis_jeeves1 4y ago>The task is to prevent these people from taking and holding power. And for that I completely blame the 'right' thinking, honest, hardworking nerd types - even when given the reins to power they will often not take it, because it is uninteresting work, compared the cool gadget/problem they are working on.
- MockObject 4y ago> in order to prevent them from being taken over by sociopaths. Every institution has already been taken over by sociopaths. That's why it's called an "iron law", and not a mere concern.
- leaflets2 4y ago> Every institution + "that is so large so there's a pyramid to climb and a bunch of sociopaths who start climbing". Smaller orgs can get away, can avoid the iron law. But a big country is a bit doomed