(July 17, 2015 at 3:26 am)Metis Wrote:(July 17, 2015 at 3:10 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: Whatever that means, apparently.
It means humans are often devious shits who once they attain the smallest bit of power abuse it as fully as any despot. See traffic wardens, teachers and tax office clerks.
I'm inclined to agree, you get one Nero wanabee in such a government and we're all fucked.Even if ran by majority rule we're all fucked because majority rule would be theocratic rule.
And the Stanford prison experiment, and the one where they think they're electrocuting someone in another room (Forgotten what that one's called)
When a person is told 'You have control over these people and as long as you obey your superiors you'll be fine' they always go too far.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. ~ George Bernard Shaw
