power & corruption confusion

on wiener/edwards/clinton/pastors/cheaters/liars:

“Constituted power is the product of a grey, incessant alchemy in which good and evil and, along with them, all the metals of traditional ethics reach their point of fusion. It thus becomes a question of irresponsibility and the inability to judge…though one that is situated not beyond good and evil, but rather before.” – Giorgio Agamben

also:: Recent experimental psychology suggests that the more power one has, the less one takes on the perspective of others, implying that the powerful have less empathy.