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It’s not implying it, rather it’s the explicit central premise. It’s just dressing it up in other language to appear like a reasonable social norm.

If you come right out and say you’re using “avoid chaos” to steamroll reasonable dissent, your control will be undermined, because people can’t be seem aligning with an overt tyrant.

But if you say “avoid chaos” doesn’t steamroll reasonable dissent (even though it does), now people can argue, debate, obfuscate, whatever and rationalize they aren’t doing anything wrong by aligning with you, at least not publicly.




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