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Honesty

Celine's Third Law

An honest politician is a national calamity.

Celine recognizes that the third law seems preposterous from the beginning. While a dishonest politician is interested only in bettering his own lot through abusing the public trust, an honest politician is far more dangerous since he is honestly interested in bettering society through political action, and that means writing and implementing more and more laws.

Celine argues that creating more laws simply creates more criminals. Laws inherently restrict individual freedom, and the explosive rate at which laws are being created means that every citizen in the course of his daily life does not have the research capacity to not violate at least one of the plethora of laws. It is only through honest politicians trying to change the world through laws that true tyranny can come into being through excessive legislation.

Corrupt politicians simply line their own pockets. Honest idealist politicians cripple the people's freedom through enormous amounts of laws. So corrupt politicians are preferable according to Celine.

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Re: Honesty

In a better world we wouldn't need politicians.

I can't recall the whole quote but the quote was if people could govern themselves then they wouldn't need leaders.

But your question basically is a damned if we do and damned if we don't situation.

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Re: Honesty

Those three laws are deppressingly true. All three of them.

Freedom is never given; it is always taken. So for the fact that you're not a slave, don't thank those in authority. Thank someone with a "bad attitude."
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People just need to be simpler and have a society be a society.

To provide a standard of living to its citizens and not go overboard with laws.

Thing is a politician itself is nothing but some mongering who helps pass more laws.

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Re: Honesty

That's why we're supposed to create incentives for politicians not to screw over everyone else.

It's not entirely the politicians' fault either. Everyday citizens share some of the blame.
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Negative Wrote:That's why we're supposed to create incentives for politicians not to screw over everyone else.

It's not entirely the politicians' fault either. Everyday citizens share some of the blame.

Agreed.

Everybody is trying to always get over on everybody else which comes with the whole individual thing.

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