Does power corrupt?

Has power corrupted those given power?

  • Yes, it has.

    Votes: 8 66.7%

  • No, it hasn't.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • They've remained the same.

    Votes: 4 33.3%
  • Total voters
    12
  • Poll closed .
garinda

garinda

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Overlooker
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
- Baron Acton.

Judging those of us who've been elected to offices of power, whilst being members of this forum, have those people been corrupted, and changed for the worse, or better, or as power not changed them at all?

This poll is a secret one.
 
Neil said:
How do I vote if I think it has corrupted some but not others?
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You must look at the evidence, and try and make a generalised, but informed decision, as to whether you think that power has changed members of Accy Web.

If this doesn't satisfy your own thinking, there is always the two other remaining options.

Don't vote.

Don't vote, but virtually spoil your paper, by voicing your dissent in this accompanying thread.

Anymore help, please just ask.

Give, give, give.

;)
 
Neil said:
How do I vote if I think it has corrupted some but not others?
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You could also take another route.

Name those who you think have, and haven't been corrupted.

Perhaps giving reasons why, with examples of their corruption, if need be.

;)
 
I voted remain the same on the basis i think its all in the mind. if yer bent,yer bent to start with, just sometimes needs a platform to fully develop.;)
 
I vote yes, but not all people who are elected crave power, some just want to make a difference, and this does happen
 
jaysay said:
I vote yes, but not all people who are elected crave power, some just want to make a difference, and this does happen
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Yes it does...




Occasionally, it even happens for the better.
 
jaysay said:
I vote yes, but not all people who are elected crave power, some just want to make a difference, and this does happen
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yeh but were they not straight in the first place? bent is bent i think no matter what level.
 
jaysay said:
How can I judge somebody who I only met when they got involved in politics, they could have been an axe murderer prior, who knows:rolleyes::D
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Common sense difficult when yeh got Tory leanings i accept that fact.:rolleyes: I believe if one is bent they were bent before, Politics just develops it more.
 
cashman said:
Common sense difficult when ya got Tory leanings i accept that fact.:rolleyes: I believe if one is bent they were bent before, Politics just develops it more.
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Oh come on cashy I didn't realise you were a real head the ball until I met you:p:p:p:D
 
i think most of the polititions in the house of commons are corrupt and have stamped over or stabbed many people in the back to claw where they are now.There may be a small handfull of people who are truely there to serve the people but they are far and few between and our MP certainly isnt one of them as he has proven .If polititions were a type of cancer to get rid of it you would also have to cut out some of the good as well to make sure it was all removed.


it seems we democraticaly elect people to dictate to us although no one at all voted for this coalition:rolleyes:
 
It's a word which covers a multitude of sins. My trusty Collins thesaurus (never leaves my side) gives the following synonyms, just in case anyone was unsure as to what corrupt means and what corruption is:

Bent, bribable, crooked, dishonest, fraudulent, rotten, shady, unethical, unprincipled, Unscrupulous, venal.
Abandoned, debased, debauched, defiled, degenerate, demoralized, depraved, dishonoured,dissolute, profiteer, profligate, vicious.
As a verb: Alter, contaminate,defile, doctor, Entice, falsify, fix, grease someone's palm, infect,lure, pervert,putrefy,spoil, square, subborn, subvert, taint, tamper with and vitiate.

Plenty to play with - can't comment personally as i don't think I've "known" those in power on the forum over enough time. (Not sitting on the fence this time -I really don't know what they promised and what they might have delivered.)

My own experience, from another time and place, is that power does corrupt - especially political power, it can bend even the most fervent idealists.
 
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