Rule Of Fear

By contrast with http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule+of+Law, the RuleOfFear holds that, in the face of a great fear, a smaller injustice is permissible.

In a process analogous to CompoundInterest?, the RuleOfFear produces a state in which ever greater injustices are enacted, each rationalized as a form of opposition to the next. The old SovietUnion was built on the RuleOfFear, and it is now the dominant cultural force in the FascistStateOfAmerica?.


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