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That translation appears in the "NIV":"Do not be misled: 'Bad company corrupts good character.'" (I Cor.15:33)The wording of the "KJV" says:"Be not deceived: evil communications corrupts good manners."
No. Mainly because the US government is set up so that no one person can ever have absolute power. Whether or not President Obama is a corrupt leader, he will never have absolute power and will thus never be a proper example of this quote.
Power is necessary to maintain order. But, order is achieved when power is used for the common good only. Let us equate power with wine for a moment. Wine is good for the human body when taken with moderation. A person who intoxicates himself with too much wine corrupts his own body. Corrupt behaviour or corrupt practice emanates from the person himself not from wine or power or anything else acquired by man. Therefore, power or lack of power does not corrupt anyone. It is the abuse of power for self interests that results in corruption. E. Diaz
The common good benefits everyone instead of a few special people. We want a society and government that is for the common good because in that way all are allowed to grow and learn.
A good society is that we need all to be balanced or equal.
All people are equal. His ideal form of government was Direct Democracy. Said the freedom of a person can only be protected by having a Direct Democracy. Said society corrupts the goodness of people. Majority Rules. He believed people could both be ruled and free.
They believed that laws made for a good society.
That translation appears in the "NIV":"Do not be misled: 'Bad company corrupts good character.'" (I Cor.15:33)The wording of the "KJV" says:"Be not deceived: evil communications corrupts good manners."
He had an idea that all people were good at birth and that society corrupted people also believed that government made people distrust each other.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau, spanish artist and thinker. National hero by the Pantheon.
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he believed in giving babies head for sexual pleasure, because it would help continue the human race. he also discovered how to make methamphetamines and would sell out kilo's of "meth" to young children to increase their self esteem
Rousseau believed that human evil was caused by society.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
According to Rousseau Citizens should be the authors of societies laws because he believed that the only good government was one that was freely formed by the people, and guided by the "general will of society- a direct democracy.
Hobbes believed people in their natural were bad; Rousseau believed they were good.