Sunday 27 April 2014

Power Always Corrupts The One Who Has it


 Power can be dangerous you can do whatever you want, but there are upsides when someone has power, they could use it for good or they can use it for bad. People need to ask themselves does power corrupt the one who holds it? Well there are 2 kinds of power personalized and socialized. 1 is for good and one is for bad. I will explain how both of these work and what kind of effects they could have.

The first kind of power is personalized, personalized power is usually considered the negative/bad kind of power because you use it for personal gain and people with personalized power use it to help themselves not others, and they can do whatever they want because their followers think that the person with the power is doing the right thing. When someone is using power just for themselves, some people get mad and they want to get some of that persons power. Some examples of people with personalized power are some famous people because they are not giving back they are just buying stuff and doing stuff that will make them cooler or better than everyone, for example Justin Bieber he just wants to buy new cars and do bad things because he thinks he can do whatever he wants because his fans think that he is doing it for good.

Most people just want power to be popular and to do whatever they want, and get away with it. They just want power to have it, without having any ideas on what to do with it. People love power they want to keep getting more and more so they can be the best. If someone has power i think they should not be aloud to use it just for themselves they should have to use it to help other people too. Most people with power get used by other people just to get to them and or something valuable that they have, or simply just to get power for themselves.

The other kind of power is socialized power. Socialized power is when someone wants to use their powers to help others. These people have to be smart so they don't get corrupted. These people want to help others and they're not just thinking about themselves all the time. Some examples of people like this are a school principal because he/she wants the best for his/her students, another example of a person with socialized power is a prime minister or president because he wants the best for his country and wants to make things better and help other people. 

I think that power doesn't always corrupt the one who holds it because as i said above people who have socialized power use it for good and want to help people, but on the other hand I used some points that show how power can corrupt someone, but if our world didn't have power our world would be crazy and out of control. Power is a huge thing to have and people have to learn how to use it. Power can be a great thing but if it goes into the wrong hands, there would be some negative effects, so when someone has power they have to be very careful and think before they do something.

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