I don’t like your analogy, since Vetinari is written as a ruler specifically not motivated by his own benefit, or the benefit of people holding him in power. He has quite humanist views, if the term applies to a fictional world populated by many different species (hell, even classes. No, strike that, that goes beyond classes, that’s…erm… Wait, I need to go to my 16th century books…) of sentient beings.
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