Unexpected Merits!

In today's debates, I was especially surprised by the unexpected weakness of the Republic, as demonstrated in our team's closing statement. It was revealed that the Republic is more evil than it seems - hiding behind their platonic analogies and class separation - instead enforcing eugenics and child kidnapping in a way that promotes an absolute absence of human happiness. In comparison to a tyranny, it was argued that a republic is more oppresive and soul-crushing in it's absolute power. It occured to me that I had never considered this to be true, mostly because of the semantic relations with the word tyranny being mostly negative, and republic being more positive. With this in mind, it was difficult to grasp that the republic could be more oppresive than a tyranny. With these news definitions in mind, I realized that under these conditions I would prefer to live under a tyranny rather than a republic. An unexpected merit that was revealed during today's debates was the argument that a timarchy could produce more stability than a republic because the people who are considered competent are not forced to act in the role of a guardian, but are instead willing to possess their power.