[80437] in Cypherpunks
Re: Wine Politics Again!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent Crispin)
Wed May 21 03:03:36 1997
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 23:10:14 -0700
From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Reply-To: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
On Tue, May 20, 1997 at 04:46:08PM +0000, Attila T. Hun wrote:
> government is its own end: power corrupts, and absolute power
> corrupts absolutely. hasn't changed yet in history. even the
> greats, Solomon, David, etc. fell prey to the siren song of power;
> why should far more inferior men like Bubba, who has absolutely
> nothing to his credit except deceit, be exempt?
"Power corrupts..." isn't a property of governments, it is a property
of individual human beings.
--
Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited",
kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke...
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