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		stcredzero on July 1, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly D... that description negates the agency and responsibility of the powerful. Huh? Power (basically by definition) weakens external constraints, including constraints that inhibit expression of corrupt impulses. You just said the same thing!

dragonwriter on July 2, 2017 [–]

No, if you want to shorten mine it's “Power provides opportunities for existing corruption to show”, which is quite different than “Power corrupts.”

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