Vic began his career as a police officer as a "straight-laced cop." in the beginning, he always made good arrests, never took bribes, and was as impartial as possible. as time went on, he became jaded with the job. he started doing favors for restaurants that gave him free food. after a while, he got into the habit of ticketing people who wronged him and his friends. vic is an example of:

The answer is: the iron law of oligarchy

the iron law of oligarchy refers to the theory that all forms of organization would eventually filled with people that eventually taking advantage of their position in the organization in order to take as much benefit as they can, no matter how democratic that organization started off with.

This theory is based on basic human nature that tend to have tendencies to never develop a sense of satisfaction and had overwhelming desire to keep acquiring more in our life. We can see this in Vic's attitude that start to leverage his position to gain favor.

the correct answer is "c": the pillars proclaimed his regret at the bloodshed at the battle of kalinga and his conversion to buddhism.

the kalinga war is considered as one of the largest battles in the history of india. it was fought between the between the maurya empire, which ruled the lands of what is now known as india at the time, and the independent feudal kingdom of kalinga.

the army of maurya empire, led by its king ashoka, fought a prolonged war against kalinga. the war ended around 262 bce with the victory of the maurya empire. it is believed that ashoka, after having witnessed the loss of many lives during this war, felt deep responsibility and eventually converted into buddhism.