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Possibly, but it's just as much a predictive trait of being libertarian, which for all its faults, is extremely anti-authoritarian.

• bb88 8mo ago
  Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. --Lord Acton. It's not really so much one's belief system as it is what happens when one gets power -- and that's hard to predict regardless of the ideology.
  • galangalalgol 8mo ago
    Not really. Seeing what people do when they get power is as predictable as what they do when given meth.
    • nerdsniper 8mo ago
      Eh. Maybe. But I do see people who are pretty consistent when they have power. It may be somewhat unpredictable before they get power, but somewhat more predictable once you’ve seen how they act with it. This principle of relative consistency is baked into how I test employees for management and friends for trust, and in the past, roommates as well. Though I do acknowledge potential for growth as well, but in my older age I generally also need to see evidence of motivation to give strong benefit of the doubt wrt possible trajectory.
• SlightlyLeftPad 8mo ago
  Except in 21st Century America, where libertarian is really just masked authoritarian. Essentially, that means “free to do whatever you want as long as it’s our way.”
  • red-iron-pine 8mo ago
    "i hate the gub'ment esp. the way evil mega-corporations tell me to"
• eli_gottlieb 8mo ago
  Libertarianism is just privatized authoritarianism.
  • cherrycherry98 8mo ago
    Libertarian principles encourage relationships built on mutual consenting parties rather than coercion. This implies that both parties have the freedom to choose. Imagine being stuck with a small dating pool of undesirable partners, the choices may not be good but that doesn't make it authoritarian.
• jfengel 8mo ago
  When libertarian means liberty for everyone, it's anti-authoritarian. Too often libertarian means liberty for me and not for you. That's authoritarian.