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Dictating something isn't always a bad thing. Dictatorships have gotten a bad image over time because leaders and rulers abused it for mass-killings, approving highly morally questionable laws, ect., but this particular form of government in and of itself is not evil or bad.At its core, a dictatorship means nothing else than that the citizens of a nation, first, don't get to elect their leaders and representatives, and second, that they can't make decisions on laws (even in democracies this is something that's barely possible, just as a sidenote). Everything else depends on it how the leader in question is doing his job and how he treats his people.Electing a leader is not really necessary if said leader is already doing the right things, knows what the citizens of his nation need and how to properly avoid a crisis for the nation and if he understands his people and is good to them and makes things that are the best for the overall state of the nation.Celestia reigns for more than a thousand years over Equestria and the kingdom strives and ponies are happy. Because Celestia is a good and caring leader who knows what has to be done to keep both her people happy as well as the kingdom afloat.If you want to really understand what a "dictatorship" is, you have to look away from horrible people like Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin. It all depends on how it's done.And for opinions, what I'm saying is that not every opinion should be handled as a free pass for people to do what they want.You wouldn't let your pedosexual neighbor bang your little, seven year old daughter. But he has the opinion that it's okay to do this, that there's nothing wrong about it and would really like to do it. Yet you don't let him anyway. Why? Because it's not a good thing to do and his opinion is wrong when he says that this is even just remotely something that a little girl should do or participate in.You don't accept his opinion because it's a wrong opinion.That's what I'm talking about. And things like that happen all the time, there's a reason why laws exist. Because without laws and declaring certain things a "crime", people would just do what they want, humanity is not mature enough for a working society without laws and the threat of punishments.All these laws prevent people from acting out certain opinions they have, they don't accept their opinions.Regulations like this will always be necessary. To what extent and what exactly gets regulated depends on how the people act and if a certain law is necessary or not, but overall, that's how it is.You can't always allow people to freely do what they want, sometimes you must control them and suppress their free will by applying laws that forbid them to do certain things based on certain opinions they have, for the betterment of society as a whole.If you don't do this and allow people everything, then this only leads to chaos and anarchy. And the latter is certainly not better as your stereotypical horror visions of a "dictatorship".