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> It's statistically unlikely that any one side has a monopoly on righteousness and good ideas It's statistically very likely that a "side" with power (economi
by culi 2y ago
> It's statistically unlikely that any one side has a monopoly on righteousness and good ideas
It's statistically very likely that a "side" with power (economic, monopolies on violence, etc) is more likely to abuse power than a "side" without power...
Would you look at the Stanford Prison Experiment and say that the prisoners are just as likely to be doing "the bad stuff" as the guards?
Maybe both sides have an even distribution of shitty people, but that's not what matters. What matters is the shitty things that are being done. Its statistically much more likely that a side that has more power is doing more of the shitty things
- ethbr1 2y agoIn an actual prison where gangs and alliances are allowed to form, you'd damn well better bet shitty people on the inmate side would still abuse their power. That's human nature, and there's power everywhere.
- culi 2y agoThey still don't have as much power as the guards. Therefore they don't have as much power to abuse
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> It's statistically very likely that a "side" with power (economic, monopolies on violence, etc) is more likely to abuse power than a "side" without power... Isn't this tautology? Only the side with power can act on its abusive impulses.