Interesting lack of response. I suspect your parent simply isn't familiar with the legacies of people like Lee Kuan Yew or Park Chung Hee, because they haven't been depicted as much in western pop culture and propaganda.
Hello, indeed I'm not familiar with those examples, but it doesn't matter. As long as a government doesn't let his people run truly free elections regularly, that's bad.
Emperors were considered normal at Romans' times; slaves were, too. Luckily, we have learned better since a long time.
Left- or right-wing doesn't matter: dictatorship is an act of violence.
Absolute position are dangerous things without complete knowledge. I mostly agree with your position, and was hoping you had something useful to say about Singapore.
Without it I think that the absolute position is naïve.
