Power requires giving up certain moral privileges that not everyone is willing to give up, there is the great difference when you have power for the benefit of the collective and not the individual, a very thin line by the way that allows some with great moral convictions to give in to obtain a power for your own benefit.
All the powers that you mention and that do not necessarily require individual examples, because you can have all of them in a single individual, e.g. You can exercise physical power through third parties, in any case fortunately although the gray area of those who have power in some areas of life allow an imbalance at times, the power that seeks to do good makes the balance.
So individuals, regardless of the field where they work, what really matters is that they exercise their power within the correct moral environment, in that sense to determine if individuals are corrupt because they have certain privileges, physical, economic, political, talented, etc. that they misuse that power for their own benefit regardless of the collective, it cannot be determined so coldly nor can it be generalized, then the result of actions based on the use of that power is what determines whether there is corruption or not, that simple.
Topic: Does power really corrupt? - page 7. (Read 1370 times)
Power doesn't really corrupt. It simply increases the corruption that is already in all people.
It is clear that power leads to corruption, perhaps only a small margin of people with power, especially those in government, are not corrupt.
We need to change the system as corruption is an evil for society that has transcended in time. It is timely for technology to take over for example like the use of AI and blockchain.
Let's take a look at Singapore is one of the least corrupt countries one of the main reasons is that its government team receives high salaries so as not to be bribed.
But not all countries are in a position to pay high salaries to government officials.
We need to change the system as corruption is an evil for society that has transcended in time. It is timely for technology to take over for example like the use of AI and blockchain.
Let's take a look at Singapore is one of the least corrupt countries one of the main reasons is that its government team receives high salaries so as not to be bribed.
But not all countries are in a position to pay high salaries to government officials.
*it always seems to be a 'him'.
Well, the gap between male politicians to female politicians up to this date is still huge, so the existence of corruption will be more noticeable to male species. In the future where the number of female to male politcians is almost equal or equal, only then we can have a data that will prove if gender is a related for this "CORRUPTION"
Power is said to be the ability to control the action of other people around you.when can change the decision of other people using force or negotiations you are are said to powerful.some types of power include,
Physical power (the rock)
Political power (Joe Biden)
Economic power ( Alinko Dangote)
Expert power (Lionel Messi)
Referent power(Nelson Mandela)
Coercive power(Saddam Hussein) etc
Political power is said to be the ability to control people in a country without problem.but too much political power bring about dictators.
There is a popular saying that power corrupt, but absolute power corrupt absolutely.
Power poisons the man who has it specially when it is too much. The government has most of the power over a country regardless of what type of government they have. As they get the chance to rule over and manipulate people's mind, it becomes a dessert for them that they always look for. No matter how good of a person a certain individual is, tempation sill come forth towards him and he will soon abuse his power. In any field actually, may it be the politics, sports, science and others, once the power given is already too much, the chances that corruption and greed will always be very high. Physical power (the rock)
Political power (Joe Biden)
Economic power ( Alinko Dangote)
Expert power (Lionel Messi)
Referent power(Nelson Mandela)
Coercive power(Saddam Hussein) etc
Political power is said to be the ability to control people in a country without problem.but too much political power bring about dictators.
There is a popular saying that power corrupt, but absolute power corrupt absolutely.
On the one hand I think you are at least partly right, but I also think about the saying: "opportunity makes a thief" which, I think is also at least partly true
Yes, certainly, it's both, you're right. We are to an extent shaped by our experiences. For example someone who has risen to a position of absolute power might see everyone else as inferior to him*, including those people whom, prior to his reaching that position, he viewed as colleagues and equals. It's both nature and nurture, it's not 'either/or', it's 'and'.
*it always seems to be a 'him'.
The question is complicated somewhat by the fact that often those who seek power, particularly absolute power, are those who would use it selfishly for their own ends anyway. If someone wants to become an authoritarian dictator, succeeds in becoming one, and then starts to act in a corrupt fashion, we can't really suggest that it was attaining the power that made them behave that way... they were already that sort of person.
I'm not clear on that, and as you say it's a complicated question. On the one hand I think you are at least partly right, but I also think about the saying: "opportunity makes a thief" which, I think is also at least partly true and I think it is along the same lines of the sentence mentioned above:
There is a popular saying that power corrupt, but absolute power corrupt absolutely.
So it's not all black or white.
The question is complicated somewhat by the fact that often those who seek power, particularly absolute power, are those who would use it selfishly for their own ends anyway. If someone wants to become an authoritarian dictator, succeeds in becoming one, and then starts to act in a corrupt fashion, we can't really suggest that it was attaining the power that made them behave that way... they were already that sort of person.
Power is said to be the ability to control the action of other people around you.when can change the decision of other people using force or negotiations you are are said to powerful.some types of power include,
Physical power (the rock)
Political power (Joe Biden)
Economic power ( Alinko Dangote)
Expert power (Lionel Messi)
Referent power(Nelson Mandela)
Coercive power(Saddam Hussein) etc
Political power is said to be the ability to control people in a country without problem.but too much political power bring about dictators.
There is a popular saying that power corrupt, but absolute power corrupt absolutely.
Physical power (the rock)
Political power (Joe Biden)
Economic power ( Alinko Dangote)
Expert power (Lionel Messi)
Referent power(Nelson Mandela)
Coercive power(Saddam Hussein) etc
Political power is said to be the ability to control people in a country without problem.but too much political power bring about dictators.
There is a popular saying that power corrupt, but absolute power corrupt absolutely.
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