Abuse of Power

[lukertin]

However, power obtained by building up yourself an empire or business has no such direct granting of power, and with nobody to which to be beholden, there is no outside definition of use to be construed. In other words, if you gave yourself the power, it's use is defined by the user, making it's "abuse" inherently impossible.

Yes, inherently impossible if you're the sole owner &employee or emporer &citizen. In any other situation people are impliedly giving you power, which you will abuse because you have no accountability until you piss off enough people that they kill you.

 

Power that is taken through conquest can get a little more complicated when you consider the fact that the leader of a group on some level is likely granted the role of leadership, which the granters define.

Again, same deal as above.

[draconix]

Please try to keep up with me. People being pissed off at you because of the way you used power does not mean that you abused your power, speaking objectively. All it means is that your use of power pissed some people off. "Abuse" is amoral, independent of morality, it is an objective word with a clear definition, regardless of the word's connotation.

 

Abuse of power = misuse, which is defined as using power in a way in which it was not intended to be used. If you grew a business from the start, then you are in charge of your business. If you give yourself a raise, this is not abuse of power, because you did not use your power in a way not intended by the granter of the power: yourself.

 

However, if power is granted to you by those with more power, such as a population of voters, the people determine what they granted the power for, which is what determines the power's intended use, and thus everything else would be abuse.

 

Everything else is just people abusing the word abuse.

[buddah]

This has been derailed enough and is starting to denegrtate beyond the nicities of social interaction.

 

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