Absolute Power

Everyone, I'm sure, has heard the saying "Absolute power corrupts absolutely..." The surface defination is pretty obvious. Or, maybe its a little more complex than that. Bad men will do bad things. Is there such thing as a bad man? Is evil and all things countrary to "good" really something that is easily defined. The real meaning behind "absolute power" isn't that power is possesed and then corrupts. Its the individual that corrupts the power. And once the power is corrupted it will corrupt everyone and everything associated with it. Its an absolute chain that spawns events and other chains of events that become, ultimately, so powerful that it is the only power left.
So the new question is can we save the power once its been corrupted and before it becomes absolute...

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