If he thought someone was trying to dissuade him from his leadership he would not have questioned it, but would have made an example of it. All of his people despised him for the way he treated them, and if they had the opportunity to kill him they would. A scene from the movie “Training Day” shows the corrupt cop, who was finally about to get what he deserved from the rookie he was training that day. He thought, since he was in his "hood", that his "people" would have his back and handle the situation for him so his hands didn't get dirty. Instead, they let karma handle the situation because they were fed up with his treacherous ways. Machiavelli knew the kind of world he lived in and knew that if people were given an inch they would go a mile, so he always had his guard up. He says “A morally good person should compete with the mass of people, who, in his opinion, are fundamentally bad” (Machiavelli 220). This is very true, in today's society everyone thinks for themselves. If Machiavelli had been a teacher he would have been a tenured one, basically they can say or do whatever they want and they won't get in trouble. He was the type of person who either feared him or hated him, but he knew that everyone would respect him or else they might suffer the consequences. Combining these two would have created a fantastic double. Too much Machiavelli drove his people crazy and not enough Lao-Tzu let his people think they could do whatever they wanted. They