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minus-square@Wes_Devlink3•2 months agoIt’s such a disappointment. We try to build a system with people to entrust our well-being to and help those in need, but it always goes wrong. From ancient times and the king’s guard, to modern cops in some town. It always becomes corrupted.
minus-square@cerement@slrpnk.netlinkfedilink5•2 months ago “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.” —Lord Acton, Letter to Bishop Creighton (1887)
It’s such a disappointment. We try to build a system with people to entrust our well-being to and help those in need, but it always goes wrong.
From ancient times and the king’s guard, to modern cops in some town. It always becomes corrupted.