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What if it's an authority that you trust, like a doctor?
Is authoritarianism good then?
that's neither authority nor authoritarianism. you're conflating multiple different meanings so you can shift the goalposts on the sly. a doctor can give you advice, and if you're wise, you'll heed it out of respect for her hard-earned expertise, but she doesn't have authority. she isn't empowered to force you to do anything. even being involuntarily committed is generally something done by courts, not doctors; the doctors are merely required to carry out the courts orders.
Actually they call a doctor into the court to offer expert testimony.
I think that you have a good authority and a bad authority but just call them different things to avoid awkwardness.