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Why should I agree to swap one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker questions the point of exchanging one distant ruler for a vast number of nearby ones. Distance is treated as a safeguard, while many local tyrants would be closer, more numerous, and harder to escape. It is a sceptical argument against trading one form of domination for another.
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