• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    They want to make an example of him. Their goal is for everyone to fear them.

    They’re trying to be Machiavellian. In The Prince, he wrote that weak rulers are loved and strong rulers are feared.

    What they forget is that he wrote that worst of all was to be hated.