What happens if the Army is told to kill everyone of a particular race?
If maniacs take power, we’re deeply screwed. Our efforts should go toward making sure that doesn’t happen.
If maniacs take power, we’re deeply screwed. Our efforts should go toward making sure that doesn’t happen.
Consider a treaty organization organized against a hypothetical enemy. If the adversary succeeds in corrupting and neutralizing one of the member states, that is significantly less damaging than if it were a centralized command that was corrupted.
It increases the cost dramatically to neutralize the treaty organization, and the threat to the system is easily and publicly recognized. As opposed to the slow and eventually catastrophic corruption of a centralized command.