POLS 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Showboat, Misogyny, American Civil War
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[ continues reading slide] last long as a leader. A prince has to learn how not to be good. Even if it(cid:495)s in your so, the good guy is going to get the short end of the stick. The good ruler will get screwed over by others. If being morally virtuous is your ideal leader you will not nature. Even if you are someone who is nice, a gently disposition or you"ll morally virtuous, you cannot just act that way and secure power. You have to know there will be circumstances when necessity requires we act contrary to our moral virtues. T: who was morally good but learned how to not. I think someone who commits to human rights like obama who is also ordering drone strikes ticking off targets of potential terrorists in many countries. T; someone who acts judicially you might have to order drones on specific targets.