Not so much confounding, as conflating. But I agree conflating them without explicating why I believe they are correlated makes this post weaker, and it could be beneficial in the future to more explicitly make the case for my implicit position that more democratic and closely representative countries are also more free.
I agree that value can be had in playing Taboo with the words you list, though I do also feel that taking advantage of the existing connotations these words have is beneficial in using people’s existing intuition about freedom and democracy to pump intuitions for why the systems I value are important and better than the system that currently exists in the US.
Not so much confounding, as conflating. But I agree conflating them without explicating why I believe they are correlated makes this post weaker, and it could be beneficial in the future to more explicitly make the case for my implicit position that more democratic and closely representative countries are also more free.
I agree that value can be had in playing Taboo with the words you list, though I do also feel that taking advantage of the existing connotations these words have is beneficial in using people’s existing intuition about freedom and democracy to pump intuitions for why the systems I value are important and better than the system that currently exists in the US.
Thanks for the feedback!