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- Jan 2, 2017
1. Wildly optimistic, and leads back to the question "Do you honestly think the people will simply be okay with having their democratic government usurped by an autocracy?" Do not say "But they won't rebel because the King will make all right!": Man will rebel against all that is pure and good in this will because men value freedom even over their own well-being. When the people rebel, will you set the army against them as a tyrant does?
2. I am saying that the only way to force a willful person, even a child, to do something that is against their character is to psychologically break them through abuse, or as some like to call it, "strict discipline". The result will not be a full person with their own agency, but a psychically-maimed half-man who would dutifully dance to your tune. If this was the best way to install your perfect king, would you do it?
In case you aren't sensing the driving theme behind my questions, it is this: at what point do you step back and say "what I am doing in the name of a good end is so morally repulsive that I cannot condone achieving my end if this is the means I have to use to reach it"? Is there such a point in your mind? Speaking of minds and wills; do you understand that other people want things that you do not want, or do not want things you want, and arrange their lives accordingly? Because for someone who claims to love the American way of life, you seem to either be wholly ignorant of agency or else see it as a non-factor, if not the object of disdain.
