DominatorX1@thelemmy.club to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 10 days agoSay what you will about totalitarian dictators, at least they’re human.message-squaremessage-square33linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down14
arrow-up1-3arrow-down1message-squareSay what you will about totalitarian dictators, at least they’re human.DominatorX1@thelemmy.club to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 10 days agomessage-square33linkfedilink
minus-squareDrekaridill@feddit.islinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 days agoWho do you think made that system of laws?
minus-squareDominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-210 days ago(Do try to speak plainly. It makes the conversation run more smoothly.) Yes, a system of laws made by humans. But that system is itself not human. Any more than a car or a toothbrush. The important difference is that a system of laws is dumb, blind, gameable and breakable. A human, much less so.
minus-squareNONE@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days agoDictators are both the main beneficiary of the system of laws and its promoters, because they ARE the law.
minus-squareDominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down2·10 days agoThat depends on the dictator of course.
minus-squareNONE@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 days agoNo, that is the basis of every dictatorship: to centralize political and legal power, all power in general.
minus-squareDominatorX1@thelemmy.clubOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·10 days agoWell yes, that centralization of power is implied by the term. But who it benefits is not.
As opposed to?
A system of laws
Who do you think made that system of laws?
(Do try to speak plainly. It makes the conversation run more smoothly.)
Yes, a system of laws made by humans. But that system is itself not human. Any more than a car or a toothbrush.
The important difference is that a system of laws is dumb, blind, gameable and breakable. A human, much less so.
Dictators are both the main beneficiary of the system of laws and its promoters, because they ARE the law.
That depends on the dictator of course.
No, that is the basis of every dictatorship: to centralize political and legal power, all power in general.
Well yes, that centralization of power is implied by the term. But who it benefits is not.