Power Is Bad

“Nearly all men can stand adversity but if to test a man's character give him power” -Abraham Lincoln. Power. The word that everybody want’s. Power make people do things the don't want, making people leave homes for no reason. Power is used to threaten people. Power is a negative force in society.
First, power used negativity does not just affect one person, it affects everybody that is controlled by the power. This is seen when thousands of people are running away from war and corruption in the middle east and africa. “Many are escaping violence, poverty or prosecution.” This suggest that power creates a negative force in rulers of a country. The government of these countries declared war on each other. They declared war on each other because they want more control and power over countries, the more land the more power. Because government leaders want power, there is war, and because of war millions of people are fleeing their countries to Europe where they could be safe from war. Most people would agree that if a leader did something bad out out of greed and power the people should not be blamed.Non powerful people should not be killed for the ruler's actions.
For example, on november 13 a group named “ISIS” held an attack on Paris, France killing 129 people and injuring 350 people. This suggests that “ISIS” did this attack to become more powerful and out of revenge.”the group said that the attacks were revenge for france's part in The U.S bombing”They want to let people know to join them or die. If “ISIS” had no power then people wouldn't join their group, everybody wouldn’t who they are. They use their power to inflict fear on people. Ordinarily if someone wants to rise to power they have to have to have people supporting and helping the person or