Primary duty.

There are all sorts of churches and balances meant to address specifically the things you bring up. In the end the restraint is mostly through education, transparency, and actually giving a shit about what people need. Anyone with control of actual, physical power can do at they please to increase it, but we cannot keep people from having access to that power if we're to get things done. We must work to address the incentives. The rest is symptoms.

But, though you've read it twice, i don't think you've read it once. It's absolutely full of aspects intended to reduce the potential for tyranny of any variety. But the details are secondary. The foundation is ethical necessity. Are you sure you've read it?

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