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   Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 08:57:09 JST Jess👾

   Ya know, all the movies and stories about aliens invading the earth with futuristic weapons, enslaving humanity, and stealing all of our planet's natural resources probably hits really differently for indigenous people

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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 08:57:08 JST tinydoctor

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     @JessTheUnstill For us, the heirs of empire, projection, much?

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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 00:52:36 JST tinydoctor

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     • Jimmy Havok

     @jhavok @JessTheUnstill The problem is finding humans who seek and acquire power who do not behave as if abuse was at least one of the natural uses of power, no matter what they say or believe. Really, abuse is one of the natural uses of power, and one exercising power must consciously refrain from abuse. That does not come “naturally”.

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     Jimmy Havok (jhavok@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 00:52:37 JST Jimmy Havok

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     • tinydoctor

     @JessTheUnstill @tinydoctor Jerks who abuse power are afraid of this because they believe abuse is the natural use of power.

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     Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 00:52:38 JST Jess👾

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     • tinydoctor

     @tinydoctor
     Those in power always fear that someone else with more power will come along and treat them the way they treated those with less power in the past.

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     Jimmy Havok (jhavok@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:22:14 JST Jimmy Havok

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     • tinydoctor

     @tinydoctor @JessTheUnstill Hope you never get any power.

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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:22:14 JST tinydoctor

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     • Jimmy Havok

     @jhavok @JessTheUnstill Me too. Whatever power I have over others I did not seek and seek not to use much less abuse. I'm just not interested. Don't want to lead, don't want to follow either.

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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:31:06 JST tinydoctor

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     • Jimmy Havok

     @jhavok @JessTheUnstill Note that I said abuse is *one* of the natural uses of power. You can use your powers for good, as they say. But it's not as easy as one might think, even to tell good from bad, much less do good without the bad creeping in. People do evil all the time in the name of good. The more absolute the good, the more evil they do, generally.