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Daniel · 15 answers · 7mo

Would you be a good dictator?

I have no idea. I might have some outrageous grand scheme to save humanity/turn the country into a utopia that's completely untested and unprovable and jump right into it, or enact a few individual laws basically to that effect. I might also be paralyzed by the murkiness of politics/trying to run society in a way that doesn't have some dirty consequences and doesn't cause outrage among any particular factions of the population...and I might be totally candid about my views on and motivations for everything, because I think it's only right and would make things easier and I'm idealistic, while it would actually make both political sides hate me, because I'm mostly liberal but share some important views with conservatives, and also have some views that everybody hates. I might also try to save the world by enacting very strict environmental regulations, which is actually necessary to prevent the imminent collapse of the biosphere and civilization, but they'd have to be so strict that it would drastically compromise our convenient and luxurious modern lifestyle that everybody's so addicted to. Other possible problems: I'm lazy, I have severe social anxiety, and I lack common sense when it comes to the arbitrary workings of human enterprises.

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