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Is it? Qin did conquer the 7 states. After the French revolution, France resisted the combined might of the rest of Europe by being unafraid to murder it's gene
by username332211 2y ago
Is it? Qin did conquer the 7 states. After the French revolution, France resisted the combined might of the rest of Europe by being unafraid to murder it's generals when they underperformed. The Soviet union is said to have reached it's apogee under Stalin.
If anything, history shows that ruling government officials by means of fear is very good sign for the nation, but tends to be harmful to the rulers.
- woooooo 2y agoCounterpoint there would be Mao. Lots of fear and starvation, less impressive results until Deng started fixing things.
- ben_w 2y agoYou can't reach that conclusion by limiting to only examples where fear worked, as I can also point to Pol Pot, Mugabe, and the Kim dynasty of North Korea ruling by fear, and it being bad for those countries.
- username332211 2y agoThis discussion isn't about generalized terror, it's about a policy of fear directed at people who work for the government. None of the people you listed directed their campaign of murders towards civil servants. Pol Pot confined his cruelty towards the intelligent, Mugabe, North Korea mostly terrorizes the peasantry, Mugabe's victims were a revolving door of ethnic enemies. It's quite a different thing to shoot an admiral to encourage the rest.