<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">What Stuart seems to be saying is that when one moves more to the left or to the right, he becomes more hostile and uncaring towards people. I don't see how that follows, and I want any data anyone has. Hostility and uncaringness can be found abundantly in middle of the road people who just want to fight someone, and will adopt any philosophy that gets him there. Amoral. Apolitical. Power hungry. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 8:50 PM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2020-12-29 16:49, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat wrote:<br>
> Can you think of any historical or current counter-examples<br>
> of a fascist or communist state where the people were free?<br>
<br>
Can anyone name a recent oppressive state that has not been described as <br>
either "right-wing" or "left-wing"? (Maybe a Muslim absolute monarchy.)<br>
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Maybe it's not that philosophical extremism leads to authoritarianism, <br>
but that authoritarianism makes a lean to one wing more blatant.<br>
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*\\* Anton Sherwood *\\* <a href="http://www.bendwavy.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.bendwavy.org</a><br>
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