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Posted by D. Lerious on :

Do you think that getting sudden fame and/or fortune change a person, or do they make the good and bad traits more obvoius?

In my opinion, I think that it is a little bit of both. For example, if a person was mean and vengeful to begin with, then with money and power, that person would become more vengeful and mean because the money and power would allow them to be more effective in their quest to do evil. On the other hand, a person could start out kind and gentle, but the climbing to the top would cause them to harden and lose that kindness because that was the only way to get there. All in all, I think it depends on the person

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

True. In 10 years time, Ash will have become so good and powerful, his mind will turn dark. At first, it'll just be little things, like making Brock run around in a Nurse's outfit saying "ooh, I really hate girls". But then one day, he'll go too far, and have Gary killed by genetically modified electric mice. And when that day comes, we will have lost one of the nicest idiots that ever walked the Earth to the Devil's own evil hands.

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Posted by Fructose (Member # 309) on :

It may just seem that power corrupts because you only hear about bad things that people do. When do you hear about how someone won all this money and didn't change. What's shocking about that? I'm sure it goes both ways and it depends on the person.

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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

Then again, power turns on the lights....

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Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :

Hmm...

If knowledge is power...

And power corrupts...

BURN ALL THE BOOKS!!!

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

He was kidding, of course.

And if not, I might remind him that God, being both all-knowing and all-powerful, would be DOUBLY corrupt.

We only think that power corrupts because the media folks never do tell-all-exposes on the 'poor and downtrodden' corrupt. And because 'Joe got 167 million dollars and used it to feed a starving country' probably won't sell as many magazines as 'Joe's lurid tale of multimillion-dollar good fortune and sudden descent into bankruptcy at the hands of third-world conspirators' would.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

And certainly not because we live in a world that tends to reward selfishness with large sums of money and power. Heavens no.

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

LOL @ Omega!

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