Totalitarian states are incentivized to keep you productive and aligned. (Even if they might do a poor job, and may use terror for alignment.) But civil war means that there is no food production, no way to build homes and infrastructure.
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Religious totalitarianism was the default for humanity since we formed agrarian societies. Totalitarianism is what got us here. The death tolls of totalitarianism are the flip side of forming arbitrarily large economic entities with full top-down control.
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Pluralism was the conclusion of the cost to enforce totalitarianism, but a full commitment to pluralism entails the deconstruction of moral universalism. After that, a good chunk of our productivity progress came not just from liberalism, but also from modernist totalitarianisms.
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We actually don't know that yet; it is an empirical and not a moral question. For all we know, most of the next generation will painfully perish due to global warming.
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