[Urbane Guerrilla]

Aliantha, your thinking is hopelessly mired in "moral equivalency," and if you've ever spent a significant amount of time living inside a totalitarian system, as I have, you've never mentioned it. I've tasted liberty and I've tasted totalitarianism, and totalitarianism, while not without its uses in constructing damage-tolerant organizations, is NOT a way to model an entire society. There is no moral equivalency. Totalitarianism must not merely go, not merely die, but it must go utterly and forever extinct. Democracy is the only worthwhile way, and the more libertarian it is, the more I'm likely to like it. Every stable society, though, is a blend or perhaps an array of counterpoises. Extremely anything -- that doesn't last.