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fyi. The reference to the tyranny if virtuous relates to Aristotle's Politics: the ideal political constitution is that in which all citizens are fully virtuous ... but "the many may turn out to be better than the virtuous few". Other than that, I cannot remember.

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I don't fully understand the reference to this? Is it that you are implying that the many are using the phrase wrongly, and are not virtuous but opportunistic and/or arrogant? If so, we're essentially agreement.
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Yes! but I was also trying to show how a sentence can be used from and to describe two very different kind of approaches depending on their own convenience.
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It's certainly part of a phenomenon called (rhetoric) appropriation wherein the powerful/privileged take/misuse language to describe something the less powerful/privileged use for a specific important thing... Thus diluting its meaning.
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Like the noun and verb "trigger" has been weaponised by 4chan and co, even though it's a really valuable concept originally for PTSD.
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Or "transethnic"! http://sjwiki.org/wiki/Transethnic …
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Yeap! Quite an extended tecnique to weaken the "adversary"
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