POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Stupefied, Tyrant, Mississippi Highway 4
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Perhaps you should be loved because you are feared, despite it being safer to be feared: m"s contrast between the two is a specific rejection of the discussion on the topic by. Cicero: cicero discussed the love that could be cultivated between a leader and his followers, advised leaders to do so. M and c view ordinary citizens very differently: the people can feel gratitude, m says, but they will neglect that attitude when it is in their interests to do so. Fear as the ultimate instrument of power: fear, used for clearly specified aims, makes people behave well. This argument explains why m says it is perfectly possible to be feared but not hated. Just don"t take away their property: cicero says that fear may be an effective tool but if men wish to be feared, they must inevitably fear their own people.
