Basically you just incentivised the cruelest, nastiest sadists as the best candidates for high office. What could go wrong?
Hmm, that was a shortcoming I did not foresee.
The problem with that is that just like with antibiotics you're left with the ones which they don't kill, you'll be left with those who would actually rather enjoy watching people getting killed.
Yeah but if you are dying of a disease, surely it's wise to do SOMETHING, right?
I mean, what's the solution to these types of problem where the adversary keeps getting better and better? I feel like Forever War touched on this too, where the Taurans just kept getting more and more advanced, and it was always an arm race to have the better technology and better weapons and better tactics, etc.
I wonder what else people would be more willing to do by pushing a button rather than doing it themselves.
I mean, it's not surprising that gov higher-ups would incinerate human beings with a button, dump toxic waste on people from a plane with a button, poison water supplies, launch tear-gas from choppers, etc.
They should be forced to open their eyes and WATCH the effects of their buttons. Like Clockwork Orange or something.