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The different forms of government make law democratical, aristocratical, or tyrannical with a view to their several interests; and these laws, which are made by them for their own interests, are the justice which they deliver to their subjects, and him who transgresses them they punish as a breaker of the law and unjust. And that is what I mean when I say that in all states there is the same principle of justice, which is the interest of the government; and as the government must be supposed to have power, the only reasonable conclusion is that everywhere there is only one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

From the Greek philosopher Thrasymachus in the fifth century BC. The events of this week proved that he was right all along. Human nature does not change.