Sure, you are free to ignore me. But you should expect exactly this sort of response anytime you advocate for draconian authoritarian states. Freedom ain’t free; it is bought at the cost of eternal vigilance and a willingness to defend basic liberties from those who would seek to deny them. People who have lived through these terrors in the 20th century know just how real and non-academc this is.
I said “we can imagine X,” not “we should strive to create X.”
I objected to descriptions like “dictatorship,” “autocracy,” and “authoritarian” because those are words with actual meanings which don’t necessarily apply to the institutions under discussion. For example, a democracy may pass and enforce laws without becoming a dictatorship.
Sure, you are free to ignore me. But you should expect exactly this sort of response anytime you advocate for draconian authoritarian states. Freedom ain’t free; it is bought at the cost of eternal vigilance and a willingness to defend basic liberties from those who would seek to deny them. People who have lived through these terrors in the 20th century know just how real and non-academc this is.
I said “we can imagine X,” not “we should strive to create X.”
I objected to descriptions like “dictatorship,” “autocracy,” and “authoritarian” because those are words with actual meanings which don’t necessarily apply to the institutions under discussion. For example, a democracy may pass and enforce laws without becoming a dictatorship.