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by wolverine876 810 days ago
Do you have evidence of the first sentence? Or is it circular?: If crime goes down, they are 'good' dictators.

What about the victims of those dictators, who lose lives and families and freedom? They don't much benefit from the 'good'.

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> If crime goes down, they are 'good' dictators.

Crime nearly always goes down with dictators, that's not a good metric. The question is how many completely innocent people have their lives ruined or lost in the process.

> Crime nearly always goes down with dictators

Wow, I am pretty well informed and I've never seen that. Do you have evidence of it?

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