Re:C++ in Coders at Work
by bonch on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @01:44AM
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The problem, of course, is that what is considered "benevolent" is entirely up to the dictator to decide. That alone makes it a non-ideal government type.
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Re:C++ in Coders at Work
by loup-vaillant on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @10:50AM
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No, it is up to the coherent extrapolated volition[1] of the dictator's people. (At least, it seems like a good guess.) What makes a government less than ideal is its failure to apply that volition. The question then is how hard a given type of governance is likely to fail.
Now I agree that for a host of reasons (like taking one's own volition for the country's CEV), dictatorships do not rank high.