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An American ecologist, Hardin popularized the Tragedy of the Commons, arguing that shared resources degrade without control, a thesis that influenced debates on the environment, property, and population control.
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Garrett Hardin leans further toward irreligious than 88% of the 416 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where Garrett Hardin stands furthest from the rest.
On Control, Garrett Hardin sits close to the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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Environmental current inspired by Garrett Hardin that links population pressure to the depletion of common resources. It favours collectively enforced limits on resource use and policies to curb population growth.
Socrates' dialectical method, examining beliefs through rational questioning and the pursuit of virtue, distrustful of mass politics and the rhetoric of demagogues, yet respectful of the city's rule of law.
A current that sees the unitary, centralized state as the guarantor of individual liberty: uniform law, secularism and single citizenship dismantle the local, clerical and corporate privileges that would oppress the individual without a strong national power.
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Techno-CommunismAnarchist43%
A German philosopher, Schopenhauer saw the blind Will as the irrational essence of reality, a source of perpetual suffering, and advocated compassion, art and ascetic renunciation as the only relief, in a pessimism skeptical of all Enlightenment and political optimism.
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