• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    19 days ago

    You contradict yourself in the first paragraph.

    It is a spectrum, which is why “anybody who isn’t an authoritarian is a libertarian” is not true.

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      18 days ago

      I don’t understand why you think that is a contradiction. You both agree there’s a spectrum between the two. Technically, if you’re not 100% authoritarian you have a greater-than-zero alignment with libertarianism.

      Now, if you’re trying to say landing somewhere in the middle of the spectrum means you’re neither, then I tend to agree with you (labels suck). However, I’d take it a step further and say that nobody is going to be the 100% perfect embodiment of either end of the spectrum, and therefore, no true authoritarian or libertarian exists. I think, to say either one of you is wrong is just arguing semantics.

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        18 days ago

        I’m aware of the chart. You are saying that only the two very extremes exist. That’s silly.

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          18 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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            18 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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                17 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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                  16 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.