Time reverses to the moment of your birth with your memory reset, but you are now in an alternate universe where a global authoritarian government took over the world. (Continued in body of post)

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Question: In such timeline, Do you think you would grow up to become pro-government or anti-government? Why?

So, basically, the point of the question is: Do you think your political beliefs are shaped mostly by your DNA, or by the environment you grew up in?

For example: If you are an anarchist in this timeline, would you have been a government sympathizer had you been born in an environment where dissent is suppressed worldwide?

My Answer: Honestly, I'm not sure, but I have a lot of rebellious nature of me, I think that's just who I am, I think that's already part of my DNA. I highly doubt I would be pro-government, but probably also be much more afraid of the government in that timeline than in current timeline.

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Honestly, I think just like now, I'm not going to like it, but I'll avoid doing anything that might cause me to be arrested.

Great question. I have had a similar thought myself once, wondering if evolution extends across the multiverse.
Since I grew up feeling like I was in an authoritarian government since I was a child (anarchist age 50, USA), I’m going to guess I come out that way in an even more overt authoritarian government 🤣

Nature vs. Nurture is always a bit of column A and a bit of column B.
But you haven’t provided enough information.
What’s the government like other than being authoritarian? It’s possible to have a benevolent authoritarian government. Does it successfully provide food, shelter, and entertainment for the people? Imperial Rome was authoritarian but life for a Roman citizen was probably better than life for some of the ‘barbarians’ at the gates.
How does the government react to challenges to its authority? Fair and proportionally or brutally?
How do those around me, as I grow up, react to the government. Is it mostly fear and anger or contentment and acceptance?

What kind of government? Am I born into a group that benefits from whatever the government is doing?
There is always a group of people that benefits from a government. Authoritarian governments that tends to be much less than the 50% required to win an election.
I am much more likely to support a government that does not see me as a questionable element and potentially an enemy of the state.
- Adding more to this
  If i am not in that group, what about their corruption, paperwork and law enforce?
  Example of enviroment Why this 2km road contrucstion stop working? How long does it take to get my id? My neighbor have loud noise everyday?

Living under an authoritarian government now in the UK I’d like to think I’d be just as anti-government then as I am now.

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