Well I wouldn’t view it as evil but extreme measures tend to be viewed as evil by someone
If society is at the point where we’re making dictators then you likely have to be an immoral POS to stay in power. At every stage below you there are opportunistic people who want to take your spot.
Bigger question is how long would you last? If you’re benevolent then the people closest to you won’t like you as their dictator because presumably you treat everyone equitably and don’t keep a bigger piece of the pie for yourself and your confidants.
I would probably try to make a form of voting system to get myself out of the role as fast as i can
But not before giving trans people rights
No. No one can.
Yes, vote for me.
No
No, but I’ll give it the old college try. I’ve always imagined that the only way to be a benevolent dictator is to do the dictator thing only to install a better form of government to replace you and hope it sticks when you step away. Something more technocratic and with better checks and balances.
Yes, and it’s because I’m too lazy to do any actual dictator shit.
I doubt I would be a benevolent dictator. I am a good person mostly through sheer force of will, not by nature. I abhor cruelty — yet I’d gleefully inflict misery upon those who practice it.
I suspect over time that would erode the thin façade of beneficence within which my rage lies cocooned.
How many Philosopher Kings do we have here?
No because narcissistic psychopathic yes-men would flood my surroundings and I’d probably quickly become paranoid (with reasons to be that).
Except if it was in a Douglas Addams way.
There’s a famous phrase: power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It’s guaranteed to happen. The theme is played upon in LOTR when both Gandalf and Galadriel refuse the ring, knowing what it will do to them. It’s the most important metaphor Tolkien put into the stories for a good reason. Peter Jackson made those moments stand out, as he also understood the assignment. Nobody is capable of resisting the call of corruption when given absolute power. You are not an exception.
You don’t know me. When I have power, you’ll see. YOU’LL ALL SEE!
The trick is to set a reasonable limit for political assassinations and idiotic massive construction projects ahead of time, and then keep to those limits.
I would instantly be assassinated for helping out people too much and handing too much power to workers syndicates
