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God, I fucking hate Plato's Republic (thelemmy.club)
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[-] Morphite88 1 points 2 days ago

I seem to remember a passage where he makes the argument that society should be ruled by a group of elites who know better than everyone else and decide who can reproduce etc. Funny how Western civilization turned out...

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