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Originally Posted by Halk
But I'm different. When I have the entire world in my grip, one of my first actions as High King of the Earth will be to abolish poverty.
And of course when that fails I won't accept that I did it wrong. I'll accept that I can improve my efforts, then I'll start to identify why they went wrong, and who is at fault. I'll sort them out, and as I do that more of them will come out of the woodwork, and I'll sort them out, and their sympathisers and indeed anyone who gets in my way. After all I'm getting rid of poverty and these people that stand in my way are trying to perpetuate poverty. I'll have to do some things that are a bit shady, and that I hadn't initially planned for, but it's all worth it in the end. Politicians and leaders who start to unite people against me... well, I can justify imprisoning them, or them having accidents because they're going to pervert people's minds against the state and the good work I'm trying to achieve. It's actually a benevolent thing to have them put to death. When the people start to lose faith in me... I'll seize on to one of their ideas of who is at fault, and I will turn the heat up on that group of people. They're at fault slightly already, so it is justified, and by uniting the people against a common enemy we can again work together towards the goals I set out....
The above is how I imagine a dictator goes from good to bad... and despite deep down believing that I would be a benevolent dictator, logic tells me it'd be one little step wrong at a time as far down that path as I let myself go.
As far as humanity united.... in order to do so we need to compromise. And that means compromising on our ethics and morals. Thus, anyone who is unwilling to compromise on ethics or morals isn't really wanting to unite together, they're wanting people to unite behind them. That's a difficult thing to accept, but sadly it's true.
As for astra the heckler... I could see that one coming. Barging into the thread in the middle of a discussion to bait someone into a points scoring situation.... there's no high score table on internet forums, please don't try to win!  |
No high score table? I was lied to! I demand a high-score table be introduced, with flashing lights and my name in ten foot high letters that sparkle majestically!