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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9508087" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Really? Several people who post on this forum have said almost exactly that. Perhaps not those words, but certainly that meaning. Some of them would not say it, but would instead enforce it through being crappy to those who violate it until they &quot;wise up&quot; or leave. (Which, to be clear, is significantly worse than saying it outright, even though both things are pretty bad.) Again, I can give you a link for a post saying that very thing if you care for it, and I was one of the only people who called this person out for doing so.Then your authority is not and cannot be absolute. If someone can reasonably petition for change and actually have some chance of getting it--even if that change is not at all guaranteed!--then the authority is not absolute. It admits correction from other sources. Yet &quot;absolute authority&quot;, a term I have advocated against time and time again and been told no, it really has to be specifically &quot;absolute authority&quot; and nothing less, is what is always used as the line in the sand here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9508087, member: 6790260"] Really? Several people who post on this forum have said almost exactly that. Perhaps not those words, but certainly that meaning. Some of them would not [I]say[/I] it, but would instead enforce it through being crappy to those who violate it until they "wise up" or leave. (Which, to be clear, is significantly worse than saying it outright, even though both things are pretty bad.) Again, I can give you a link for a post saying that very thing if you care for it, and I was one of the only people who called this person out for doing so. Then your authority is not and cannot be absolute. If someone can reasonably petition for change and actually have [I]some[/I] chance of getting it--even if that change is not at all guaranteed!--then the authority is not absolute. It admits correction from other sources. Yet "absolute authority", a term I have advocated against time and time again and been told no, it really has to be [I]specifically[/I] "absolute authority" and nothing less, is what is always used as the line in the sand here. [/QUOTE]

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