# If by social animals you mean ones that participate in groups then yes dominance hierarchies…
Date: 2026-03-31

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If by social animals you mean ones that participate in groups then yes dominance hierarchies increase. However even among group organized animals there are examples like the Muriquis, Bonobos, Vampire Bats, and Cape Ground Squirrel. If you want an example of democracy African Wild Dogs vote by sneezing.

Relatively much freer is not good enough to justify the authoritarianism unless they are masochistic / sadomasochistic as you say. But cruelty for the sake of cruelty, which they definitely exhibit, does not fit in with the evolutionary history you propose. For instance in the animal world there is no punishment for same sex pairing and frequently this behavior is rewarded as it reduces heterosexual tension.

Why are authoritarians necessarily against paying taxes? Feudal systems have taxes and enforcing them is half the point. If you mean they just want to starve democracy of its tax support and then later pay taxes to their king, then I get it. But in America it was a tax revolt against a king, led by a fairly conservative group of American aristocrats, that led to democracy in the first place.