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Between Virtue and the Baton: Why Power Still Fears Ethics
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in ExclusiveTwo and a half thousand years ago, Confucius offered rulers an unsettling idea: govern by example, not by fear. If leaders behaved ethically, people would follow. No riot gear required. No slogans needed. Just decency, consistency, and restraint. History, predictably, yawned. Confucius lost most of his political battles while alive. Yet his ideas outlived emperors, JRJ, and
