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Originally Posted by fash
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I have generally been assuming we're discussing democratic governments in this thread, yes. Believe I said so earlier in the thread. A democratic government can absolutely be authoritarian though (think tyranny of the majority).
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Good point. Democracy can exist in a range along the authoritarian-libertarian scale, but I would say it's range is necessarily more libertarian than a republic, which is more libertarian than a monarchy for example because the peoples' liberties are less within their control at each step. Does that make sense or am I not saying that right?
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Also, authoritarian governments aren't somehow unnatural.
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Hmm yeah, not what I meant to suggest. When I said the government is tasked with doing the work nature was prevented from doing, I was referring to outcomes resulting as the specific intent of man, rather than something else (nature). Yes we could consider man's behavior as part of nature and therefore everything is natural, but then that only requires us to find different words to discuss the same distinction ^^
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I think you're trying to collapse way too munch into authoritarian/libertarian & left/right axes (I'm certainly guilty of this too).
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Yeah, it's not as bad as trying to stack everything along the left-right scale, but still not ideal.