Power corrups, subjecting an healthy adult to anyone other then themselves is always harm. And even for the immature and ill we should strive to maximise their freedom and expressions.
Yeah i have since looked it up and seems lotr does contain a quote that resembles this.
Its still nog very relevant. I’ve been thinking that way before i got access to the internet and saw those movies and the way the movie worded it doesnt properly fit my meaning.
I defo agree that the idea that power axiomatically corrupts is much older than lotr. Tolkein was cribbing from the bible, perhaps unconsciously, because even for chill agnostic people like us, we were still raised in a media and political environment soaked in Christian thinking that defined the stories we’ve consumed and the ways we unconsciously see the world.
LOTR was a mistake seriously.
What does lotr have to do with any of this?
You must surely understand what is being said by those two pieces of text back to back
Yeah i have since looked it up and seems lotr does contain a quote that resembles this.
Its still nog very relevant. I’ve been thinking that way before i got access to the internet and saw those movies and the way the movie worded it doesnt properly fit my meaning.
I defo agree that the idea that power axiomatically corrupts is much older than lotr. Tolkein was cribbing from the bible, perhaps unconsciously, because even for chill agnostic people like us, we were still raised in a media and political environment soaked in Christian thinking that defined the stories we’ve consumed and the ways we unconsciously see the world.