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The point is that one shouldn't expect people to stand up and say "that's an authoritarian law"! It doesn't work that way. Authoritarian laws get passed becau

• aaplok 4y ago
  > Authoritarian laws get passed because people want them. I don't think I agree. Almost by definition authorianism doesn't acknowledge what people want. A law passed because people want it would be either democratic or populist, depending on whom you ask. I think that the issue here is that all laws are authoritarian at some level, since the principle of a law is to impose. And indeed most citizens would probably support most laws. That doesn't really make the law "bad" or "good" per se, though.