zalim-ji, i agree. if everybody had the same preferences (or derived the same utility from a given thing), there would be no social problem. Nepe-ji, "By definition, a voice for a dictatorship is a DICTATING voice, not a DISSENTING voice." Imagine a situation. Two hours from now, you and me get a Democratic Republic Nepal by some magic. You are all happy and all, dancing and what not. I pipe up, "This system is foul. There is no discipline. There should be a Superior Human here who controls and disciplines everyone." That is a voice for dictatorship. Should the Democratic Republic kill me or banish me? I do not understand why a voice for a dictatorship has to be a dictating voice.