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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45
Not necessarily. A lot of times society is not the product of a ruler but the ruler is a product of society. If it is the latter, an assassination will only bring in a new, most likely worse, [insert whatever].
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Which is why the exhausting, expensive business of being defeated in a war proves a better resetter of societal rules, viz., 1939-45 Germany, Italy, and Japan.
Everyone has their nose rubbed in
and-how'd-that-work-for-you? They realize it didn't, and make the necessary sweeping ruleset change.