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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/6/20 4:31 PM, Marcus Daniels
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<p>Steve writes:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>< I have at least one friend who has a very
paradoxical/hypocritical? style of wanting to "pass laws
against passing stupid laws" and "punish extremely, those who
wield extreme authority". ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>A few yielding influence over many is a more serious thing
than many exerting influence over a few (that deserve it).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>I'm in sympathy with his (and your) gist... I just don't believe
that the means/ends conflation doesn't eventually lead you right
back to the abuses you were trying to right. The common?
revolutionary leaders who get installed as the new "leader of the
nation" only for everyone else to discover that power in fact does
corrupt.</p>
<p>I think there is a literal paradox in the "passing laws against
stupid laws".<br>
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<p>I love me some good vigilante fantasy as much as anyone, but I
think the torches and the pitchforks should at best be used to
take the power out of the hands of the despot, not to exact
revenge (beyond the humiliation and fear perhaps of losing the
power so abruptly). <br>
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