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0 pointspeteretep9y ago0 comments

    > Dictatorship contains evil.
    > this is a black-and-white matter

No matter how much you repeat your opinion, or how strongly you state it, it doesn't mean it suddenly become consensus reality.

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vixen999y ago· 3 in thread

I guess it's pretty much black and white for most of us if for life's duration we're forced to do what someone tells us to do. If permitted, we could do a few polls and discover whether such sanctions are regarded by those affected as 'consensus reality'.

'Evil' has religious overtones but it's not a bad word to sum up such a situation.

eyko9y ago

Even in democracies, we're forced to do what our govt tells us to do, or not do. Soft drugs and alcohol are the perfect example of someone's opinion forced down our throats. the fact that some drugs are harness but illegal while others are harmful but legal.

Americans couldn't travel to Cuba. During the cold war, USSR. Americans couldn't freely express socialist ideas never mind communist ones. This in a democracy. I don't really see a big difference. The peculiarities of Cuba can be understood in its geopolitical context.

Trombone129y ago

No, daylight saving is the perfect example of someone's opinion forced upon us.

There is a general case to be made for regulating toxic substances and the examples given are of people arguing over if particular substances really are toxic enough.

peteretepOP9y ago

    > we're forced to do what someone
    > tells us to do

That is the case in almost all non-ananarchic societies.

You are confusing a lack of suffrage for effective slavery.

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