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by nonethewiser 1027 days ago
Of course that’s bad. You cant justify dictatorships with good intentions.
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I missed the part where he said the Chinese did good at X therefore dictatorship’s must be amazeballs!

Leave room for nuance and discussion.

What about with good outcomes?
"The King is happy on his Throne, and the people are pleased" obviously winning in battle is a good outcome, since your enemies are now dead or slaved.

"Rome demands victory from her Generals" .. and those who tried and failed, were publicly killed. As they still do in China actually.

we can do better than this

I’m not sure Romans really did that.
What about a poster of good outcomes in front of a dystopia?
If some of those ever manifest themselves, I may reconsider.