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Would you be a good dictator?
Probably not, since there's no such thing as a good dictator
No. I have way too much empathy to be a good dictator. I am in a leadership position in this organization I'm a part of, however, and I think I'm a pretty good leader. The key to that is listening to others' comments and questions, and deciding which are the most valuable, and using the people on your team to help you. Dictators rarely listen to the advice of their advisors, even when they really need it, and that's the major difference; most dictators are narcissists, I would imagine.
I think I'd be firm but fair.😁
I have no idea. I might have some outrageous grand scheme to save humanity/turn the country into a utopia that's completely untested and unprovable and jump right into it, or enact a few individual laws basically to that effect. I might also be paralyzed by the murkiness of politics/trying to run society in a way that doesn't have some dirty consequences and doesn't cause outrage among any particular factions of the population...and I might be totally candid about my views on and motivations for everything, because I think it's only right and would make things easier and I'm idealistic, while it would actually make both political sides hate me, because I'm mostly liberal but share some important views with conservatives, and also have some views that everybody hates. I might also try to save the world by enacting very strict environmental regulations, which is actually necessary to prevent the imminent collapse of the biosphere and civilization, but they'd have to be so strict that it would drastically compromise our convenient and luxurious modern lifestyle that everybody's so addicted to. Other possible problems: I'm lazy, I have severe social anxiety, and I lack common sense when it comes to the arbitrary workings of human enterprises.
Probably not.
I'd be an excellent dictator ... for a short while. Then it will start to corrupt my soul. I could not handle causing pain and be unjust which is inevitable when your soul gets corrupt.
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