Another question is 'Where ought the sovereign power of the state to reside?' With the mass of the people? With the rich? With the respectable? With one man, the best of all? Or a tyrant? There are objections to all these. Thus suppose the poor use their numerical superiority to make a distribution of the property of the rich: is not that unjust? ?No, by Zeus,? it may be said, ?it has been done justly, by a decision of the sovereign power.? But what else can we call the very height of injustice? And if the majority, having laid their hands on everything, again distribute the possessions of the few, they are obviously destroying the state. But virtue does not destroy its possessor, nor is justice destructive of the state. So it is clear that this law too cannot be just. Or, secondly, if it is just, any actions taken by a tyrant also must be just: his superior strength enables him to use force, just as the mass of the people use force on the rich. Thirdly, is it just for the few and the wealthy to rule? If so, and they too do this and plunder and help themselves to the goods of the mass, then that is just. And if that is so, then it is just in the former case also. The answer clearly is that all these three states of affairs are bad and not just.
The fourth alternative, that the respectable should rule and have sovereign power over everything, means that all the rest must be without esteem, being debarred from the honour of holding office under the constitution. For offices, we say, are honours; and if the same persons hold office all the time, the rest must be without honour. Is then the fifth alternative better, that one man, the most worthy, should rule? But this is yet more oligarchical, because it leaves still larger numbers without honour. It might be objected that it is a bad thing for any human being, subject to the affections that enter the soul, to have sovereign power, which ought to be reserved for the law. But that will not make any difference to the problem-cases we have been discussing: there may be a law, but it may have a bias towards oligarchy or democracy, so that exactly the same results will ensue.
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DPC top 30 van 12 september
| 1. | ( 1218) | 148.165 | The HolyCows | 1.045.374 | (223) |
| 2. | (4) | 72.964 | QU|CCC - Our sympathy lies with the USA | 34.363.757 | (1) |
| 3. | ( 1) | 61.044 | wiho | 29.908.334 | (3) |
| 4. | ( ) | 52.847 | ScoutLink DPC-Force | 1.604.628 | (135) |
| 5. | (2) | 42.160 | Team BoGoH, Our sympathy lies with the USA | 9.096.388 | (17) |
| 6. | (1) | 39.739 | I'R cow: Our condolances to the USA | 14.354.827 | (7) |
| 7. | (1) | 35.714 | ShoQ.CoM & ClubDev.NL Combined forces | 9.165.504 | (16) |
| 8. | (106) | 32.339 | RockRaiders Will remember WTC | 976.022 | (243) |
| 9. | (16) | 29.910 | M@lkunie | 2.141.202 | (105) |
| 10. | (5) | 28.879 | Interior Lulu | 25.029.164 | (4) |
| 11. | (9) | 26.911 | Ethan_Hunt (Dying, slowly but painfully..... | 33.597.862 | (2) |
| 12. | (4) | 26.591 | Rulende_Bikkels & Panic IRC | 12.018.375 | (10) |
| 13. | (6) | 26.509 | TBWA Netherlands | 3.773.086 | (54) |
| 14. | (47) | 25.714 | Boxmeer | 1.150.170 | (204) |
| 15. | (3) | 25.498 | TFS - Supporting US victims, family and friends | 8.741.581 | (18) |
| 16. | (7) | 23.297 | Burnin'Cows Our sympathy lies with the USA | 10.379.058 | (13) |
| 17. | (24) | 20.666 | De Unie's | 7.021.625 | (26) |
| 18. | (11) | 20.461 | HEKO POWERED | 3.292.534 | (60) |
| 19. | (13) | 19.862 | Delariam Junkies | 4.400.375 | (46) |
| 20. | (9) | 19.484 | Team Forsaken | 6.895.244 | (27) |
| 21. | (7) | 18.827 | Cow Kunstje sends the US their condolences | 4.878.747 | (39) |
| 22. | (14) | 15.909 | TiMMaY TEAM | 3.214.381 | (66) |
| 23. | (15) | 15.692 | Theetjuh | 2.823.407 | (74) |
| 24. | (7) | 15.519 | Clan-of-Nine | 13.095.746 | (9) |
| 25. | (1) | 15.276 | Pallas Athene CSHH | 11.354.278 | (11) |
| 26. | (4) | 14.935 | Memleak | 5.204.143 | (37) |
| 27. | (6) | 14.773 | AUGUSTIJN | 7.361.922 | (24) |
| 28. | (9) | 13.771 | Team #Hanglooz | 2.141.530 | (104) |
| 29. | (10) | 13.546 | HeinZ | 1.861.350 | (121) |
| 30. | (1244) | 13.274 | Snakeye | 230.935 | (795) |
Top 15 teams
| 1. | () | 2.389.221 | Dutch Power Cows | 1.303.749.877 | (1) |
| 2. | () | 1.826.282 | HZTeam. United power of Russia and other xUSSR countries. | 749.899.070 | (4) |
| 3. | (1) | 1.557.499 | AnandTech | 1.072.838.053 | (2) |
| 4. | (1) | 1.349.924 | Russian Team | 685.231.145 | (5) |
| 5. | () | 863.587 | Team EvangeLista (Macs Rule! :-) | 543.857.817 | (6) |
| 6. | () | 721.107 | Slashdot.org | 773.552.684 | (3) |
| 7. | () | 607.626 | The Amiga RC5 Team effort | 433.309.275 | (7) |
| 8. | () | 597.735 | Japan FreeBSD Users Group | 359.326.131 | (9) |
| 9. | () | 533.568 | Japan Linux Users Group | 350.942.666 | (10) |
| 10. | () | 519.948 | Team Warped (OS/2) | 403.176.856 | (8) |
| 11. | (2) | 499.188 | Japan Windows NT Users Group | 311.895.049 | (11) |
| 12. | (1) | 492.918 | Ars Technica Team Beef Roast | 242.875.308 | (13) |
| 13. | (1) | 465.338 | Ukraine RC5 | 177.125.225 | (23) |
| 14. | () | 408.151 | Team Depaul | 125.218.641 | (29) |
| 15. | () | 341.148 | CCC.de | 213.192.801 | (15) |
Mijlpalen
| Rulende_Bikkels & Panic IRC | 12.000.000 |
| Koe | 4.000.000 |
| The HolyCows | 1.000.000 |
| Dutch Limbo Cows | 900.000 |
| #Darling Blokkendoos | 600.000 |
| [Dutch Power Cows] Team Woudenberg | 600.000 |
| Outback Cows - Our sympathy lies with the US | 600.000 |
| Momfer (Dutch Power Cows) | 500.000 |
| Rednar | 500.000 |
| Sahin ÖZALTUN | 400.000 |
| team BloodyMary | 300.000 |
Leden
| Aantal leden | 5784 |
| Verschil met vorige dag | 2 |
| Nieuwe leden | 4 |
| Retirements | 1 |
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