Stuart_Armstrong comments on Why Does Power Corrupt? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 14 October 2008 06:29:33PM 2 points [-]

Need power corrupt? What if it's just the same people, with the same small flaws - except the scale of the temptations and the consequences of the actions are multiplied, and there are no longer any socially dominant people to disagree with them and cause them to question their actions?