Phil_Goetz5 comments on Why Does Power Corrupt? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Phil_Goetz5 14 October 2008 12:32:21AM 1 point [-]

I'm unclear whether you're saying that we perceive those in power to be corrupt, or that they actually are corrupt. The beginning focuses on the former; the second half, on the latter.

The idea that we have evolved to perceive those in power over us as being corrupt faces the objection that the statement, "Power corrupts", is usually made upon observing all known history, not just the present.