The Moral Hazard of the Fearful Tyrant

If your response to an emergency makes you terrified and tyrannical, you are not the right leader./nThere are three levels of evidence that indicate that you are not the right leader: you are frightened into paralysis by the emergency, you are willing to extend the use of tyrannical power to justify response to your fear, and the claim that you are making that the situation is so dire that you and the people who think like you must be given all the power is a moral hazard of the first order.