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by kbelder 1333 days ago
That, plus the ability to define intolerance, gives authoritarian control.
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Nice glib content-free answer.

So, you just give up?

With any good faith effort, intolerance is pretty easy to define.

But, if you are talking in bad faith, there's 1000 arguments.

All authority is not authoritarian. That is why democracy was invented. In order to provide a self-correcting system. But yes, Churchill was right when he said that "Democracy is the worst of all forms of government, except for all others that have been tried."

Total free-for-all has repeatedly been shown to rapidly devolve in every case. Can you show a single un-moderated forum that survives over time, or a single unregulated "free" society without authority that does not fail?

So, can you show one of these no-authority forums or societies, or do you have a better suggestion than to just give up?