"Laird wanted to raid you, take everything. I told him I wouldn't bring him here.... He was sick, lots of the villagers were, people were dying. The ones who were healthy, we started to trap, to work for the village. Making soup, working in teams. People started getting better.... Laird didn't" (p65)
Power: proof that unlimited and unrestricted power leads to negative benefits for society as a whole - even leading to the demise of the leader himself