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One danger at the moment is that authoritarians are great at using anything to support authoritarianism, and every cause you can imagine can, will, and is being used by people in some corners to justify more authoritarian control over individual people's lives.

For, against, it doesn't really matter because it's all just a tool used by someone who wants a thing, not ends in and of themselves.

If you think you're one of the good guys and your cause can't be used to justify authoritarian control of others, either you are blind to it, or your cause isn't powerful enough yet. If it's something on the upswing, give it 20 years.

But most importantly, our individual human brains.

Biggest problem is letting others tell you what you think and believe.

"You want to be part of the group, don't you? You are part of the group because you believe A, the group also believes B, therefore you must believe B"

Not only could you believe A but not B, but you could also believe C that seems entirely at odds with both A and B independently and individually. Humans are like that. But sometimes it's because we've only been led to believe that c is at odds with a or b or both.