“Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The quote from Shakespeare’s “Tragedy of Julius Caesar,” although short, it says a lot about the manipulation of power and how it can change the morals and the sense of humanity in a single person. The person 's morality lessens as long as their power increases. All power should not be given to one single man, if it is than that man will feel as though he is god and can manipulate everyone to do their bidding. The existence of an altogether unrelated drive for personal gain or the existence of further malice towards people 's social, economic, political, religious, ethnic, and moral beliefs and the control of those beliefs and what they believe in can get to a man 's head and they …show more content…
Power is that of which a man needs to take responsibility and leadership necessarily defaults in the absence of being able to contain and process meaning with others as well as oneself. A man named Andy J. Yap who is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT, set up a simple experiment, where he manipulated his subjects into weak or powerful states of mind and then asked them to guess the height and weight of other subjects both in person and in photographs. The result was that of when people feel powerful or feel powerless, it can influence their perception of others, and we will judge the power of other people relative to our own power. And when we feel powerful, there’s others that feel less powerful. They shrink more and more as the other person gains more confidence. It is like bullying, if a kid is picking on a smaller and less confident kid, then they gain confidence from their pain making the kid not have any confidence, possibly ruining their life and crushing their hopes and dreams. The obvious problem is when personalized power dominates and the leader gains, often at the followers ' expense. Leaders can at times delude themselves of that they are working for the greater good, however, they behave in a manner that is morally wrong. Making themselves believe the rules that govern what’s right and wrong don’t account for the interests of a powerful leader. Just because you may be a president or some large leader, does not mean that the laws in our society apply for everyone besides that single man. He robs a bank, he should not be allowed to get away with