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Prismsblade posted...

Like others have said its just a matter of time before terrible leaders start coming to power that will fuck up everything. May not come in your lifetime but they will.

Using Rome as an example out of the 70+ rulers they had only 5? I believe were considered good historically.

But this applies to all systems tbh. Even democracy hasnt proven to be much better outside of serious wartimes mostly.

Rome is a bit of a weird basket. Romans had a pretty big habit of making shit up about people they didn't like. Everyone knows the famous story about how emperor Nero played the fiddle as Rome burned. What people don't know is that never actually happened. Nero wasn't in Rome when the fire started. As soon as the news reached him he returned to Rome immediately and opened the imperial palace to let people inside who had their homes destroyed by fire. He then implemented new building codes to try and prevent more fires. I'd think that the Roman dictators treated their people considerably better than most recent or currently active dictators. Despite popularity from the people however, the Roman empire still had blood soaked hands.