Here's a quote I have rather liked.
Give a brief example of how it applies (or not) to your life.
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." ~ Lord Acton
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln
I don't believe power exclusively corrupts people, but just amplifies their actual motives whether that is good or bad. For some, power lets that true potential shine and they do something truly good for the world, others it's just for themselves. It's all really on what issues need compensated for and what approaches/views the person has been accustomed to. I'm not at all condemning people who use power in a way that doesnt benefit others either.
"BONUS for example from your life and then to DISPUTE it"
I lived in a fatherless household and had absolute power at a very young age. I could've done anything I wanted, I could've been like most minority kids that grow up without fathers, I didn't choose that route. Instead I took it upon myself to manage and be responsible for my family, my father was missing and my family needed him, so I just became him. Did I do this because it was the right thing to do? Hell no, I did this because I was compelled to by my own issues from my past. It would've been harder to not manage things.
Systematic stated: source post
I don't believe power exclusively corrupts people, but just amplifies their actual motives whether that is good or bad.
Motives don't always have to be exclusively good or bad either.
Primal stated: source post
Caligula was killed by his own personal body guards....
Which is why you get leftist, culturally-marxist Scandinavians to do the body-guarding instead. Can't trust anyone else. :p
Inquirer stated: source post
Systematic stated: source post
I don't believe power exclusively corrupts people, but just amplifies their actual motives whether that is good or bad.
Motives don't always have to be exclusively good or bad either.
Primal stated: source post
Caligula was killed by his own personal body guards....
Which is why you get leftist, culturally-marxist Scandinavians to do the body-guarding instead. Can't trust anyone else. :p
That would be foolish to assume was a wise/intelligent choice....given the vulgar insanity of Caligula...and the nothing on which his reign was based...I would choose Chærea any day of the week,
Unlike the culturally-marxist Scandinavians .....some people do their own thinking...
The Praetorian Guard killed plenty of emperors; they were a political entity of their own until disbanded. The later Varangian Guard never had such aspirations since they were always made up of loyal barbarians. Culturally-marxist barbarians, I'm sure.
..lol..barbarians are such a civilized lot....really....politics ....well....because it is so obvious...bores/d the shit out of me....but alway good for a laugh. The Reisläufer were the smarter end of it...by the looks of it....
Corruption is the natural state that people are pre-destined to go. Why else would it be so easy to slide into corruption, but so difficult to strive to be the opposite? Those without power likely appear less corrupt because of lacking the tools to becoming it, as even something as tiny as a mask, as anonymity, can give people the power to be complete assholes from a perceived lack of consequence, of accountability. The corruption potential proceeds the power, the power simply gives it an outlet to finally flourish.
To try to be good is to try to defy human nature. Once truly above the guilt trips and programming, what remains when fed properly is a monster. Such evils are an evolutionary advantage over those who know only sacrifice.