GenZedong

I must be the most authoritarian person in the world. At the school where I work I was part of overruling a vote by the junior student council (aged 6-9) to serve sushi as a school lunch simply because it was:

1. Expensive (Requires unique ingredients that are not offered in bulk by any of the contractors delivering to the school)
2. Impossible (Requires an impossible amount of work from each kitchen staff member for a single serving for each student)
3. Poisonous (The fish we can get is decidedly not sushi grade and downright dangerous to eat raw)
4. Illegal (Related to point 3, serving fish that is not thoroughly cooked would be an actual crime) and
5. Insane (If you like sushi, can you imagine the disgusting mockery that would be a school lunch version made by three people for 800 students in 2 hours?)

Still, if a toothless but well meaning food waste campaign is the hallmark of authoritarianism, I was actually part of a small group of people with authority (in this case teachers) that straight up invalidated a democratic vote. I am authoritarian China, but even worse.