Consider the following hypothetical situation;

There is a person who has the unique ability of being able to convincingly and rationally argue their viewpoints, beliefs and perspectives to such a degree that no one they encounter can justifiably deny or oppose said beliefs. The ability exists irrespective of actual truth or fact, that is to say the person can argue a lie or untruth as incontrovertible fact and thus convince people to adopt their views /perspectives with relative ease.

They are in essence an omnipotent philosopher. What do you suggest would happen if such a person existed? What would come of the limitless freedom and power of conviction?

Would they have a natural tendency to become a tyrant taking the law and way the world works into their own hands? Would this person set a self serving agenda to reach solely their own goals and ambitions indulging in pleasure and excess? Would this person lose the capacity to empathise, to gain insight or even to learn if all and any mistakes can be rectified by mere desire to insist on their validity?

Or would the person take it upon themselves to inquire? To listen and analyze with perfect logic, to fill in the gaps in human understanding and pursue some form of idealogical standard for all? One would imagine such an ability has equal power to generate utopian peace, paradise and prosperity as it does to invoke a world of hell, ignorance and manipulation.

What would become of the meaning of paradise and dystopia, or of free will, when you can be persuaded that your suffering and inequality is deserved and necessary, or on the contrary that your life does have value and is worthy and held in high esteem - because you have been told so.

Fundamentally in a world where one person sets the tone, is this world good, bad or would it even matter , would all meaning be lost?