How many cetera can you require to be paria before you’re creating an implicit No True Scotsman?
It’s quite possible, and indeed I find the idea highly persuasive, that while dictatorships may not necessarily cause all sorts of unpleasant things (oppression, civil war, corruption, etc.), they do make those unpleasant things much more likely due to more hidden structural flaws (e.g. lack of an outlet for dissatisfaction).
That proposition sounds to me a bit like saying “ceteris paribus, driving at 230km/h will get you to your destination much faster”.
How many cetera can you require to be paria before you’re creating an implicit No True Scotsman?
It’s quite possible, and indeed I find the idea highly persuasive, that while dictatorships may not necessarily cause all sorts of unpleasant things (oppression, civil war, corruption, etc.), they do make those unpleasant things much more likely due to more hidden structural flaws (e.g. lack of an outlet for dissatisfaction).
That proposition sounds to me a bit like saying “ceteris paribus, driving at 230km/h will get you to your destination much faster”.