• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Yes that actually the key difference. We willingly enter those communist dictatorships and we are not prisoners there but can leave.

    That is fundamentally different than a place like a communist dictatorship country, which builds walls to turn itself into a prison.

    Being willing to enter and able to leave a dictatorship makes it a whole different thing than a dictatorship you are born into, and cannot leave.

    Consent is everything. Like, a person can tie you up, beat you with a whip, pour hot wax on your skin to burn you, and put clothes pins on your nipples, and it’s okay as long as there’s consent. That is, objectively, a bad way to treat someone. But consent changes everything.

    And it goes the other way too. Helping a person without their consent is wrong. This is the problem with a lot of the social movements these days: not seeking consent from those they seek to help.