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Re:The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human r... by stormbrew on Sunday October 18, 2020 @10:39AM (#24818163)
Are all legal restrictions on what clothes you should wear in public authoritarian to you? Many of them exist to make sure you don't die (eg. food prep/serving sanitation, medical practice) of preventable causes.

If "authoritarian" includes every rule that affects how we interact with each other in public you've pretty much gone into nihilistic territory it seems to me.

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Re:The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human r... by dTal on Sunday October 18, 2020 @02:41PM (#24820102)
A significant political contingent does indeed object to any and all rules. They call themselves nice words like "libertarian" and "small government", but the basic ideology is really just anarchy.
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