That would help to an extent, in that more city states will likely end up with benevolent rulers. Others, however, would still be susceptible to land a ruler who exploits the innocence of people and distorts reality to advance their own agenda.
The convention on HN is to link to previous threads only when there are interesting comments there. If readers click on a link like this and don't see that, they'll be disappointed and sometimes come back and downvote the link.
