[lsbskins1]

The issue is not if power will be exploited, the issue is if in exploiting power, you create more problems than you solve for yourself. Think of colonial powers like parents. Do you really serve your own interests if you raise your children by beating them when they talk back, tying them to chairs when they won't sit down on command and taking all their toys to play with yourself? Aren't you just raising a child that will try to beat you down the first chance it gets? So what if you gave it food and bought the house they live in? So what? You set yourself up to reap the whirlwind. Behaving as if your own actions bear no consequence is stupid and does not serve your own long term interests, period.