If you win, then you make the law, if you loose, then the winner gets to choose and doesn't need to worry about any law.
Law is an illusion when it comes to war, the fact that illusion exists is strange to me, I presume it is meant to re-assure the masses that right and wrong will prevail when it wont.
Exactly. To give an impression (illusion) of order and justice whereas in politics the might is right and has always been.
On the other hand, not all illusions are bad in themselves if they keep peace and order to a society, provided that we agree that war is the supreme evil.
Neither all the rulers are the same.
Better a Marcus Aurelius or a Xi Jingping than a Commodo or a PolPot to me.
We are all selfish. A dictator is independently selfish, more democratic rulers like to have the populous support their selfishness 😂
Yeah. Historically speaking I don't see any actual anthropological or moral difference between "Democratic" rulers and "Authoritarian" ones. Most of the times they both seek power above anything else and usually have sociopathic traits. Sociopathy is truly common among power-seeking people. It's just the sociopolitical framework in which they operate that sets the difference. Power corrupts and corrupt/immoral people are attracted by power in any age.
There was a fascinating program on TV, back when TV was a thing.
There was a university professor studying psychopathy.
One day he tested himself. It turned out he was an extreme psychopath. He was married with kids, but after the test admitted, while he loved his wife and kids, he had no moral or empathy about killing them. What stopped him was society and the thought of spending the rest of his life in prison and that he actually liked his wife and kids and wanted them around.
He admitted he was no danger to anyone, but was very open about stating he had no issuing harming or even killing someone. He was a highly intelligent, self diagnosed psychopath, that chose not to do harm because he had a very comfortable and enjoyable lifestyle.
wow
Fallon was featured in the BBC production Are You Good or Evil?, where he revealed his discovery that he, himself, has the neurological and genetic correlates of psychopathy. Fallon stated that even though he displayed callous behaviour in his life, particularly when he was younger, he believed that his positive experiences in childhood negated any potential genetic vulnerabilities to violence and emotional issues.
