It's never a good thing when the people who take on jobs in the public sector have to fear their own government. Especially when that government wilfully installs under-qualified and downright untrustworthy leadership.
Honestly, similar to software engineers and software.
America seems to have flipped from exporting the ‘American Dream’ to the ‘American Nightmare’, so it’s a lot more in people’s face right now, but frankly every country has significant issues right now.
one of those ‘hard to see the mote in one’s own eye’ type of situations usually. except in some third world countries, it’s often pretty obvious then hah.
If anything, history shows that ruling government officials by means of fear is very good sign for the nation, but tends to be harmful to the rulers.
Pol Pot confined his cruelty towards the intelligent, Mugabe, North Korea mostly terrorizes the peasantry, Mugabe's victims were a revolving door of ethnic enemies.
It's quite a different thing to shoot an admiral to encourage the rest.