“I don’t want to read this because it is disgusting to me” is totally valid.
“I don’t think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me” is authoritarian.
“I don’t think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me” is authoritarian.
Bro, blocking someone and then using their tag like this is, all offence, weak as fuck. Like all you had to say was, na bro I don’t promote pedo protags on this here blog, because I wholly agree with the premise of your argument given contexts (i.e., writing abusive relationships to show the evils, great; writing abusive relationships to show the romance, yikes).
This response is so, so comically shitty within the context of that tag, oh my god.
“I don’t think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me” is authoritarian.
Someone needs to man up here and say “actually, authoritarianism is sometimes good”.
There is a level of authoritarianism that is sometimes good.
Additionally, it is a distortion to whitewash a principle of abstract justice through the language of personal preference.
Wow, what the fuck. You’re really just gonna say “authoritarianism is good” without any shame, huh?
There are technically circumstances where the statement can be true. To quote Stormlight Archives, “Do not Sorrow, It is an era for Tyrants. I doubt this place is ready for anything more, and a benevolent tyrant is preferable to the disaster of weak rule. Perhaps in another place and time, I’d have denounced you with spit and bile. Here, today, I praise you as what this world needs.” There have been times in history where the enemy was at the gates, and the choice was an authoritarian or death. Cincinnatus was a real-life example of this. Bad stuff was coming, the Senate gave him the power to deal with the situation, and when the problem was done, he said bye and went back to farming.
The problem with relying on such methods is that while you hope you have a Cincinnatus, you’ll also attract the Sullas, who use the power to enact changes which might be good, but also favor them to stay in power, breaking their opponents. And you’ll inevitably end up with a Julius Caesar taking power completely.
That’s the problem with authoritarianism. It is like a Russian olive tree in an eroding ecosystem. The roots help keep that soil steady when it is most at risk of blowing away. But if you let that sapling grow, the tree strips away water and chokes out the other plants. Instead, you need to replace the sapling with other plants that can fulfill the same purpose, but in a way that helps everything thrive instead of just the tree. So too does the authoritarianism that kept ancestors alive need to be replaced with policies that help all of society grow.
“i’m ambivalent to censorship” is such an awful thing to say.
There is no way to “censor carefully.” Do not give others the power to censor you.
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