Yes, power corrupts, and yes, the corrupt seek power.

But:

The pertinent issue with people who want to have power over others is that when they say an invisible power is behind them, and people *believe* that, the powermongers are quantum LEAPS more dangerous than when they say Here are my rational reasons, and those can be examined. That's why religious power (the priest/worshipper one) is so much harder to repel - it's *faith* that morphs an invisible power into such a strong, real one, for good or evil.

Another problem is that there are *rational* reasons for good, so you don't need faith or religion for it.

Yet another problem (which is restricted to the Middle East and the US, I think) is the govermental placing the right of adults to beliefs in supernatural explanations of natural phenomena before the rights of their children to learning the actual, known, accepted-throughout-the-world knowledge about those phenomena. And that one chaps my ass bigtime! Doctrine and dogma (Lore) should yeild the right of way in public schools to actual knowledge (Data).

Live long and prosper.