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Originally Posted by Trollheart
3. Would you rather live under a benevolent dictator or an incompetent president?
FYI, I think benevolent dictators do/did exist, for instance Julius Caesar, being the first one, and probably all the Roman Emperors who followed. With a few exceptions, once you followed the law you were basically okay. The Roman Empire looked after its people.
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Originally Posted by jwb
Obviously the benevolent dictator. Assuming you mean benevolent genuinely and not as a euphemism..
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I'm not sure I necessarily agree that Caesar (and his successors) was all that benevolent given the history of the Roman Coliseum and all. When I think of "benevolent dictators" the first name to come to mind is Yugoslavia's Tito and, after talking to a Croatian friend whose parents lived under his rule, maybe he wasn't such a sweetie either.