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Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
You can't change people that don't want to change. Unless THEY are willing to change and do the work them selves, they will continue to be the way they are, and no amount of punishment will change that.
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Thats not always true. A few examples from history you might reckonize are Peter The Great-Tsar of Russia, Emperor Constantine later known as Constantine The Great or Augustus Caesar, William the Conqueror and Abraham Lincoln. But I believe my favorite example is of Qin Shi Huangdi-China's 1st emperor who united the 6 kingdoms of China against their wills. The Emperor standardized Chinese writing, bureaucracy, scholarship, law, currency, weights and measures. He expanded the Chinese empire, built a capital in Xian, a system of roads, and massive fortifications and palaces. Qin Shi Huangdi (259-210 B.C.) was a cruel ruler who readily killed or banished those who opposed him or his ideas. He is notorious for burning virtually all the books that remained from previous regimes. He even banned scholarly discussions of the past. The people did not want to change and were against it with a passion. The end result of his harsh actions is now one of the most powerful nations on the planet and in my eyes is the closets thing we have to a 2nd superpower.