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Say what you will about totalitarian dictators, at least they’re human.
(self.showerthoughts)
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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(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.