Thoughts
Many people claim or believe that power corrupts. But this isn’t true. There are plenty of billionaires or celebrities or monarchs that are
not evil. The British Monarchy is incredibly powerful. A man who owns a gun and knows where you live is incredibly powerful. But the British Monarchy or a man with a gun do less harm than people with power and responsibility. CEOs and superintendents and HOA members are much crueler, on average, than people with more power but less responsibility.
Responsibility is the ultimate issue with authoritarianism. Giving one person power over another, and they can ignore it. Give someone responsibility over another and they have no choice but to treat the other person as lesser.