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truthsleuth's avatar

This behaviour is often criticized as being hypocrisy. I am more inclined to consider it a deliberate flaunting of their elite status, where power puts them above the petty, compliance-inducing rules suffered by us, the little people.

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Casey's avatar

Exactly. It's like that Toobin person from the New Yorker who was burned for masturbating on a Zoom conference call. I am sure he didn't "mistakenly forget to turn off the camera." I think a big part of their pleasure in their roles, along with money and power, or a sort, is that the rules don;t apply to them. That is crack for a narcissist.

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Shy Boy's avatar

The more they continue to get away with it, the more that cements the new tiered social order. Nails in the coffin of the rule of law.

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Casey's avatar

Yes, I think we need to look at our world now as post-Constitutional, post-Bill of Rights, post-Nuremburg Code, though it is interesting to see some courts in US giving at least some light on the Rule of Law, thought hat may ultimately be a political affiliation artifact that will be shut down.

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