Are dictators ever good?
The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes notoriously put forward a form of government in which each citizen gives up his or her rights to a sovereign who is quite explicitly above the law. In return for this, the sovereign promises to guarantee and protect the rights of each individual. Hobbes feared democracy; he feared the importation into society of any idea that would lead its members to rebel against established authority. So to trade in a certain form of democratic liberty for the guarantee of safety and stability was a good trade for him.Whether or not dictators are ever good depends on what one expects from their government.

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