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Re:Apology by wolverine876 on Friday June 18, 2021 @02:50AM (#27547984)
> I've heard from people close to him that that's just the way he is and you have to get used to it.

It's an issue of power. If they didn't have power, nobody would say that. If a student behaved that way toward Felleisen, certainly nobody would say that to Felleisen.

Power corrupts.

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Re:Apology by RobertKerans on Friday June 18, 2021 @05:20AM (#27548697)
Or it reveals?
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Re:Apology by tasuki on Friday June 18, 2021 @06:35AM (#27549057)
I believe it rather corrupts.

I believe most people go to politics with genuine intentions to make things better. Then they face a situation in which they either have to sacrifice their ethics and win, or keep their ethics and lose. Guess which ones eventually prevail.

I'm from a post-communist country, and I've seen many former dissidents, who clearly had stellar ethics (often they were made to suffer for publicly opposing communism), who got into power after the revolution and their behaviour became more and more ethically questionable over time.

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Re:Apology by wolverine876 on Friday June 18, 2021 @02:37PM (#27553434)
No more than opportunities to do good reveal. We all have good and bad in us. Today you have an opportunity - do some good!
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