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>People in cults also say they’re doing fine... Yep, and people in religions say they're doing fine. Some of them probably are doing fine. I admit that this s
by ppod 8y ago
>People in cults also say they’re doing fine...
Yep, and people in religions say they're doing fine. Some of them probably are doing fine.
I admit that this survey could be biased because of people being afraid of their answers being monitored, and also that people in a country like China are probably somewhat brainwashed by the censorship in the media.
But you have to keep your mind open to the possibility that a human might balance all things in mind and with a calm disinterested choice decide that it's worth giving up privacy and freedom for a more peaceful, orderly, and efficient society. I know those aren't the values of many Americans, but Americans sometimes seem strangely unable to imagine that any human being could possibly have different values to theirs.
- you_owe_me 8y agoI am sure if you ask any current or past tirant, all of them will tell you that they just want a "more peaceful, orderly, and efficient society". Hell, even Genghis Khan would say that