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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Exactly, "dictator" is not the absolute negative thing so many people think it is.

In concept, no. But in order for it to be anything other than negative, you basically need to have someone akin to the sort of enlightened "Philosopher King" Plato proposed. And those sorts of people are so few and far between in human nature that you're going to get a thousand examples of leaders abusing their power for every single example of a leader who uses that autocratic power for the greater good without doing terrible things (in a sort of "needs of the many outweigh etc etc" sort of situation).

And the worst part of dictatorship/autocracy in general tends to be, even if you DO somehow manage to acquire a wise and munificent ruler, they're eventually going to die, and whoever replaces them is essentially going to inherit the same framework of control, without necessarily being a noble a leader. Which means even the most positive dictatorships will almost always segue into negative ones over a long enough time span.

And that's assuming the positive dictator isn't so ineffectual due to their positive nature that they aren't overthrown or conquered by a more militant opponent, undoing their work.

Basically, humans suck, so most governments we come up with also suck.
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