On 3/11/06, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
As it's been said, "power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely"; also, "with great power comes great responsibility." Such is the philosophy one can learn from comic books... :-) The sort of power where a central "office" can make arbitrary, unexplained changes and lock them down without regard to community consensus, while it's absolutely needed in certain situations (legal liabilities, etc.) is also capable of enormous potential of abuse; if the position of making and enforcing such decrees ever falls into the hands of somebody who's just a power freak who enjoys imposing things on people for no good reason, such powers would be greatly enjoyable to that person at the expense of everybody else. "Governments like emergency powers; that's why they create emergencies!"
I'm having a little trouble picturing situations where one could become corrupt from this awesome power of telling people to blank pages and start again. Other than that, I agreed with your post :)
Steve