• Forester@pawb.social
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    5 days ago

    You either like authority or you don’t. That’s binary. How much you like or dislike it is the spectrum.

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      4 days ago

      Do you not understand what a spectrum is? It cannot be both binary AND a spectrum. Those two things are mutually exclusive. Bimodal perhaps (though I don’t think it is in this case), but not binary.

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          3 days ago

          Gender is also a spectrum, do you agree? So are you saying that means that if you’re not a man, then you’re a woman?

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            3 days ago

            I think you have gender and sex confused. I also think that you’re an authoritarian in denial spiraling and reaching for any straw to grasp or goal post to change to. Gender is not binary. It’s fluid. But what would I know I’m just, the bisexual furry that you’re responding to.

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                2 days ago

                Funny how you think I’m confused but I started this entire thread. Maybe you’re just being willfully ignorant?

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      Or you appreciate authority in some matters, but reject it in others. That’s the point in the spectrum that rejects the simple binary.

      Edit: just realised both my last posts were responding to you. I’m not stalking or weird shit I swear! It just happened I woke up with more opinions!

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          It’s a bit more nuanced than that irl. You may think rule of law is important and appreciate the authority of the courts, for example. Or you may think that someone had to pass the laws and appreciate the authority of the legislature in that regard. Institutions without authority are pointless, but they’re not all inherently authoritarian unless you stretch that adjective to breaking point

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            1 day ago

            Anti-authoritarianism A belief system that opposes authoritarianism, which is a form of social organization that favors obedience to authority. Anti-authoritarians often believe in civil liberties and equality before the law.

            Aka I will live a moral life even if it is illegal.