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  I just think outcomes are more sufficiently explained by looking at material conditions and systems larger than one individual’s actions or immutable characteristics determined at birth. Why do you think that’s what you’re doing here? You’ve ignored the material conditions in order to focus on the singular aspect of power as a corrupting force, completely ignoring the context of how they gained power in the first place, a direct indicator of previous corruption. Your claims assumes the corrup...

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  That’s a rather flawed conclusion to draw from the evidence - nothing in it excludes power being gained through preexisting corruption, and considering the context of the dominant economic system actively rewarding the exploitation of others it seems incredibly naive to think power inherently corrupts. Do you really think Musk, Trump, or Zuckerberg used to be fundamentally decent people and only went off the rails once they gained power?

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  A martyr for what? There were already plenty of dead to martyr, what difference would he make?