Through Utopia, More provided the leaders with keen insight to help improve his world by claiming that leaders should not allow crime to happen and increase by preventing it before it happens and gets worse. In Utopia, Sir Thomas More wrote, “‘Let him curb crime, and by his wise conduct prevent it rather than allow it to increase, only to punish it subsequently.’” More meant that leaders should prevent crime before it happens instead of allowing it to continue and get worse. A good leader prevents the problem rather than punishing those who cause it. More’s point in this piece is that leaders should not allow crime to happen at all because that will cause tremendous chaos and that would not be good for the leader to handle. Preventing the crime before it happens would be a wiser choice than letting the crime happen and punishing the people who caused the crime to occur. More explained in the excerpt …show more content…
In Utopia, Sir Thomas More wrote, “‘A king who can only rule his people by taking from them the pleasures of life show that he does not know how to govern free men.’” More meant that a leader who governs their people by taking their wealth from them does not know how to govern free people. An ideal leader is one who governs the free without making them dependent on the government or the leader themselves. More’s point was that by taking their peoples wealth away, they are really not free as of that point because the leaders are now controlling them. The leaders have the power of their money to control them and their actions. By doing that, they do not know how to govern them correctly and should not have the title of a leader. More clearly explained that leaders should not take the wealth away from the free to control them mostly when they are