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RE: Dominators Want to Dominate, They Don't Care If You're Not Harming Others
I have always believed that just because a thing is the law does not mean that it is just.
"When it comes to those in power, they often just want to control for the sake of controlling." I think there is definitely something to that. It is a thirst that is never quenched for those who lust for power. They take pleasure from using their power to force others to do or not do things.
To me ,an ideal authority would be one who has no interest in being an authority, sadly, there are not many of those around.
The ideal authority is everyone acting together to not violate others, and when there are violations, there is unanimous agreement in a community that authorizes consequences ;)
There us a lot to like in that.
Assuming we are talking about the broken system now and how to make it function better, I think doing things like drafting vetted citizens to serve in positions of authority. It would far from perfect and it would come with its own problem but at least it would avoid handing power over to people who are looking for power to exploit.
Of course it is not. To say that woudl be stupid.
Nearly as stupid as to say that everything will be just the moment we have no laws.
Or maybe they just want to help you? If a lifeguard tells you to not swim, does he do it because he likes your look of being soaked in sweat - or because it is dangerous at the moment?
There are actaully quite a number of them, but they end up either out-elboyed by the power hungry or are simply disgusted by countless people telling them they do all the stressy work (when they could do more interesting things) because they lust for power.
"Nearly as stupid as to say that everything will be just the moment we have no laws." That would be stupid which is why I didn't say that.
You can point to lifeguards but I would point to the many cases where the police in this supposedly "free" and "just" country have used their power to beat, rape, and murder people without fear of punishment. Then I wound point to the people who are sent to prison having never comitted a crime because some D.A. gets his or her "jollys" from knowing that he or she ruins a life and forces their cases through the courts.
I could go on listing things and I could spam links but you know how to use google. The point is that it is far more dangerous to assume that an authority means well than it is to assume that it does not.
But that is again something totally different.
And because of exactly this there are (in modern democracys) rules that intend to prevent that.
That in the US there are a ot less of those rules, mainly because people do not want rules, results in people getting pushed around by e.g. cops a lot.