What you’re describing here (and in the thread below) sounds a bit like technocracy, so you might be interested in reading about the Technocracy Movement.
Comment on Totalitarianism. What are the good things about it?
dope@lemm.ee 9 months ago
If you definitely know what’s right, then forcing everybody to do it your way is a good thing.
frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
young_broccoli@kbin.social 9 months ago
Forcing anyone to do anything is inherently wrong.
Also, "whats right" isnt objective.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Your premise posits that it’s possible to have an infallible leader that always knows best. People are neither infallible nor able to always discern the best course of action. Autocracies lead to repression and stagnation given enough time.
dope@lemm.ee 9 months ago
What the leader was an organization of scientists?
Call it a “scientific totalitarianism”. Heck, look at the recent covid thing. If we were all forced at gunpoint to mask and vax. That would be a good thing, right?
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Scientists are just as fallible as other people. “Sciences” like phrenology and eugenics used to be in vogue. There’s nothing stopping similar bad science from gaining prominence in a technocracy. If there is an organization with absolute power it will attract people with unhealthy ambition and those people tend to use the tools at their disposal to consolidate their power. Systems need to be built to withstand the worst kinds of people, not built to empower the best kinds of people. It’s a nice idea but it doesn’t work in practice, imo.
dope@lemm.ee 9 months ago
My point is, if you knew what was right (Scientific being just one example) then forcing the (ignorant) people to do the right thing is good. This is obvious.
Do don’t let the kid drink a bottle of gasoline because the alternative is to infringe upon his freedom of choice.
young_broccoli@kbin.social 9 months ago
What if they are eugenecists and start sterilizing "disabled" people?
I mean, its scientifically sound. Right?