Keptquisling’s Weblog

Forgive my indiscretion travelers, but I’m here in front of you right now, and I am asking for your help. As you can see there is something wrong with my eyes and I can’t look straight. To pay for the operation, I’m now hopping in between busses cruising along the freeway in the hopes that some ridiculously rich individual will shoulder the expenses of my operation. As we all know, or as I should know if I really did bother to get my eyes checked by an actual doctor, the cost of having an operation to fix my sight would cost more than all of the little pennies each of you have on your persons right now.

And so with this excuse, even though I am able bodied and can see well enough to navigate through freeways and busses, am here right now, asking you all for free money.”

My sister’s finally back from Qatar, Spain, or whatever other country they had to stop by at on their way home. From being chased by Somali pirates to almost being quarantined along with that new N1H1 infected girl at the airport, they’ve had quite a trip. Good thing everything’s over and hopefully, no one in the family will ever need to go through anything like that again.

She showed us pics their trip and they had pictures of a US carrier without a battlegroup travelling on the same routes as they were. Was it going to check on the pirates? was it going to Iraq? Still, it was an impressive sight, a deck full of multi-billion dollar aircraft. The captains of the ships seemed to have communicated on something but none of the crew new anything about it.

I think it’s kinda funny that one of the most powerful ship in the world was smaller than the cargo ship my sister was on.

The definition of a benevolent dictator itself is against human nature. We are all essentially hardwired for self preservation, and the preservation of our closest kin. We will always prefer to help the ones we know, people who are close to us. People who we have a direct relationship with. Helping people who will have a direct cause and effect impact on our lives, be it emotionally or physically will always be preferable.

Would this Benevolent dictatorship mean sacrificing certain human rights such as freedom of religion, and freedom of speech for the perceived “greater good?” Some of the more recent examples of “Benevolent dictators” suppressed the publication of religious books.

Then there’s the question of “benevolence” itself, is this benevolence just altruism? Or is it benevolence rooted in some religious belief? Altruism doesn’t work because we’re not ants, and a Benevolent dictator motivated by Christianity would be great, if you’re a Christian. A better basis for a society would be a society focused on protecting individual human rights, don’t you think? Or am I over-estimating common sense?

 The benevolent dictator is a more modern version of enlightened absolutism[citation needed], being an undemocratic or authoritarian leader who exercises his or her political power for the benefit of the people rather than exclusively for his or her own self-interest or benefit, or for the benefit of only a small portion of the people.”  isn’t wiki great?