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>The argument for the authoritarian ability to make things happen. Alright, some authoritarian heads of state fall into the "benevolent dictator" category. But there were dozens of "bloodthirsty idiot" kind on the other side of the spectrum. Would you gamble your life and future to roll the dice?
To be honest, I'm closer to an anarchist than to an authoritarian. I want to be left alone and generally distrust the state regardless of what justifications it brings forward.
I think, that every state that currently exists has a tendency towards dystopia, and is only limited by it's own incompetency and the willingness of the populace to not obey the law. And in that regard, westerners are just as bad. I get, that things in ukraine look bad, because there's a war going on, but imagine how worse things would look, should the same switch be flipped in the west, where people are rulefollowing cattle, where surveillance of everything and everyone is much more advanced, and where the state has no financial limitations, because it exports the inflation of it's currency to the rest of the world for as long as nonwesterners use western currencies for savings and trading.
It doesn't even require a reason. You just have to look at how laws only were tightened more and more over the past 80 years. They will never reach a state where the laws are tight enough, this will go on forever, until there is no freedom left at all. And people will conform, and those who don't will be found by technological means.