Talk:Volturi/@comment-26454623-20150603073045/@comment-191.30.81.210-20151231190302

The Volturi are like any Kind of government, corrupt. Lord Acton famously said: "power tends to corrupt, absolute power tends to corrupt absolutel" Well, that's simply the case of the Volturi. They loosely resemble a benevolent dictador, or enlightened despot. It was a very good thing that they established The Law of Secrecy to vampirekind, for both humans and vampires. For humans it reduced the death toll, for vamps it made things more convenient, and after the atom bomb, laser-guided cruise missiles, and drones, made things safer for vamps. Imagine if the public at large - I believe that the main powers of the world, like USA, and Russia know of the existence of vamps, and work with the Volturi, to keep the secret - finds out the truth: the paranoia, fear, witch-hunt, and how human governments would be pressed to use that kind of weaponery on civilian populations just to kill some vamps? So, like any government, the Volturi are just necessary evil. But they are far better than the Romanians and Egyptians before than, they very rarely leave Volterra except to deliver punishment, and to recruit. It fits that Meyer choose to portray them as italians, living near Florence, for they surely resemble the virtous prince of Machiavelli. PS: it is NOT said that Aro created two immortal children, just that he kept two to study them, to see if they could be tamed. Nevertheless, even if he had created, can you go into a gun store and buy a rocket-propelled granade? A bazuka? But the government can and does buy that kind of weaponery in large quantities. Likewise, the Volturi, being the rulling coven, could experiment with the immortal children - besides, after a few years, Aro had them destroyed.