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The biggest implication - it makes opposition impossible. In a few years there will be nobody to defend the average person rights. "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely"



All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted. - Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva


Nice sounding statement, but power does corrupt. Quite a few experiments proofing it.




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