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No entity can police itself. Not even the police.

Companies, non-profits, regulators, legislative branches of government, courts, presidential administrations, corporate bureaucrats, government bureaucrats, entrepreneurs, regular citizens. They cannot self-police.

That's the motivation for having a system of _checks and balances_[a]: We want power, including the power to police, to be distributed in a society.

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[a] https://www.britannica.com/topic/checks-and-balances





go further. humanity can't police itself.



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