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My experience has been the opposite. I've rarely met anybody in the center ~80% or so that didn't have a little dictator inside of them, yearning to come out an
by adventured 7y ago
My experience has been the opposite. I've rarely met anybody in the center ~80% or so that didn't have a little dictator inside of them, yearning to come out and strangle the masses under behavior controls, dictating how everyone else is to live. I find it doesn't take more than a few minutes of conversation with moderates, before you can see the gleam of dictator in their eye, where you can get them to openly state something about wanting to directly or indirectly control other people and how they live.
And when it comes to the extreme partisan wings, the dictator is giant rather than little. You don't have to engage them in conversation for it to come out, they project it all the time willingly, openly.
- monoideism 7y ago> My experience has been the opposite. What you describe isn't the opposite. It's mostly the same. And if 100% of the people you encounter are displaying either a little authoritarianism or a lot, you need to spend more time with libertarians.
- Taek 7y agoEveryone wants to believe that they know how other people should be living their lives. And everybody believes that they themselves know where to draw the line between freedom and order. Freedom means something different to every person on the planet, and that makes it difficult to protect.