This doesn't sound authoritarian (at least not to me), it sounds like well thought-out expression of how you see things, maybe with a little hint of undermining yourself. I do not think there is a need to justify how you feel, you just being you, and me just being me, and others being others. It's how we operate. It's like the old Native American saying "there is a battle of two wolves inside of us, one bad wolf and one good wolf. Which one wins? A little boy asked the Chief - The one You feed - He responded" :-) The old Siegmund Freud would say there are 3 complex parts of us and remind us about "Me, myself and I" doctrine (Id, ego and super ego). Where Id is the primary component of instant gratification and wants and needs, ego is based on reality and your personality in the present and acts to social acceptable terms (whatever fuck that is today, lol) and finally the super ego, your moral compas, the one that stops the id from acting like a child (fuck this meeting, I'm leaving, gotta grab something to eat, I'm starving). The imbalance between these 3 complex instances is what gets people out of whack, so balance is important. OK and this concludes today's session inspired by Dr. k00b :-) ".....It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul...." Invictus - William Ernest Henley