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RE: GOOD ADVICE

in #ethics6 years ago

If you give any account 20 million steem-power, it's going to go rogue.

That is the ONLY lesson that the "Lord-of-the-RINGS" story teaches us.

If you think "if only a truly good person had this incredible power, then everything would be fixed", then you don't understand how POWER works.

That's also the entire point of Alan Moore's "The Watchmen". IT IS BETTER FOR HUMANS TO HAVE NO SUPER-POWERS, BECAUSE NO MATTER HOW "GOOD" SOMEONE SEEMS, GIVING THEM THE ABILITY TO BOOST OR BAN WHOMEVER THEY PLEASE ON A WHIM LEADS TO FASCISM.

People seem to forget (or have never been informed) that Joseph Stalin was considered by his peers to be the most reasonable, humble and honest of men, and that's the ONLY reason they granted him and him alone VAST SWEEPING "TEMPORARY" POWER.

George Washington's greatest accomplishment was REFUSING to make himself a de facto KING.

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"if only a truly good person had this incredible power,

I am not really into the hero worship thing.
i see it more as developing or amplification of the frequency of collaborative creation.

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