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[–] Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 5 points 7 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)