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    Agree or Disagree: Better to be feared or to be loved?

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    23 minutes ago, Goat-kun said:

    That is quite an unfortunate view as "real" fear too has a bad side, yet you've only tried to define the benevolent "real" love to peddle your politics. Fear is an invaluable survival mechanism and one would do well to understand its many forms.

    Yes, it's good to fear an avalanche, or the tiger that wants to eat you. Fear in these cases can mean the difference between life and death. In neither case it is possible to sit down and discuss issues with the thing you fear. When it comes to people, it's not quite as clear cut. The question is not "can fear be valuable?" (obviously, yes, it can), it's "do you prefer to be feared or loved"?

    24 minutes ago, Goat-kun said:

    P.S: The majority of politicians are lefties when global definitions are taken into account as right-wing is the domain of free market which in its most right-wing form leads to anarchy and survival of the fittest.

    That sounds to me like an oversimplification, but further elaboration would be ... um, read.

    Agree or Disagree: Better to be feared or to be loved?

    in General Discussion

    If someone fears you, you will have power over them. Anything that evolves from that necessarily includes some form of coersion, whether consciously identified or not. Love is a choice. You cannot be forced into love (Stockholm Syndrome aside). Whatever I'm doing, I'd rather have consent as opposed to force.

    But what about punishing criminals... isn't that fear (of punishment), being a higher consideration than love? Sure. But I believe that institutions should be feared while people should not. (A person should fear committing crimes in light of the punishment they would merit should they be caught. But such punishment needs to come from some sort of entity that represents society as a whole, not an individual with all the individual failings that implies. - This is part of why vigilantism is punished.)

    Also, your thread title is totes confusing. What are we to agree to disagree with if your statement takes no stance? "Agree or Disagree: It is better to be feared than loved" or "Agree or Disagree: It is better to be loved than feared".... either is a better thread topic, because it makes a stand for us to agree or to disagree with. (Whichever you personally prefer, you could just argue that you were playing Devil's Advocate.)

    1 hour ago, Dustlicious said:

     

    1. Fear becomes hatred, and hatred leads to anger. Anger causes people to do what? Become violent? Indeed. So fear makes people more prone to violence.

    It leads the dark side.

    Friendship Day Trivia.

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    Hmmm... how strict do you intend on being? Some of those questions seem to require us to read your mind to get the answer you're expecting. Do you accept answers based on how logically we can argue them, or are they a checklist of right/wrong answers?

    On 8/8/2019 at 1:24 PM, Ganondorf8 said:

    The one that allowed her to ascend to princesshood. For question four, it's not a trick as the students in question have learned much from her and for multiple episodes/specials. As for question eight, there is one particular quirk that stood out the most. In fact, Starlight did something similar.

    This helps! Thanks.

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