alt Hacker NewsPossibly, but it's just as much a predictive trait of being libertarian, which for all its faults, is extremely anti-authoritarian.
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jfengel • today at 2:13 AM
When libertarian means liberty for everyone, it's anti-authoritarian.
Too often libertarian means liberty for me and not for you. That's authoritarian.
SlightlyLeftPad • today at 12:14 AM
Except in 21st Century America, where libertarian is really just masked authoritarian. Essentially, that means “free to do whatever you want as long as it’s our way.”
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. --Lord Acton.
It's not really so much one's belief system as it is what happens when one gets power -- and that's hard to predict regardless of the ideology.