What I
do know is that a lot of Ti/Fe users tend to think this way about Te/Fi users and phrase things in this manner when referencing functional Te.
But really, Fe and Te both are authoritarian hierarchical empire builders ... Je dom and aux rule!
Fe-s build together. Fe-s like to decide together like "democracy". Fe-s work based on common principles/morals.
To say it in a funny way, a hypothetical group of pure-Fe-s-only can build an empire, but they will work together like a "headless mob monster", as no one would be their leader, just their moral code in the middle (not a person), and they would probably do some democracy-like voting on issues.
Until it goes wrong of course and they start crying/panicking, and then a Te comes along to take over...
The Te just wants to get the job done, regardless of principles/morals. He will just take his most efficient position to get the job done.
So then the Fe-s are in a authoritarian society all of a sudden. (So they can fall into an authoritarian society, but that doesn't mean they build such society by themselves.)
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However, I know how Fe-s can "teach you a lesson", if you don't join the "headless monster of their moral code". Fe-s can obviously be very enforcing in making you join their "headless monster of their principles/morals". That may seem authoritarian if that is your mom for example. BUT.. just for fun, if you would do exactly what she proposes and follow her moral code even more ideally than she does, then she will shut up. You would find out that after that there is no upper leader / next level. You will find a headless monster containing her principles/morals only.
However if your mom is Te or Fi, she could be authoritarian just for the sake of it, without any morals/principle(Fe), without any philosophical correctness(Ti) or just without any explanation why. And she would also be prone to bow to another Te/Fi above her, to someone (a person) more powerful than her (might is right), NOT to a common moral code (a non-person). Thus a command hierarchy of Te/Fi persons is created.
So maybe hierarchy is a clearer word than authoritarian. Because yes, Fe mom can seem authoritarian, but she is usually not in a command hierarchy of actual people (she is only commanded by common moral code, which is not a person).
Thats why I also said "authoritarian society", not just the authority of your Fe mom.
Next time, I would use "hierarchical" as the definition, instead of "authoritarian". After I wrote all of this, I conclude that it is a better choice of words.
So version 2 of the formulation of my hypothesis is:
Te/Fi-users (xxTJ/xxFP) & especially Te/Fi-doms (ExTJ/IxFP) tend to build a "hierarchical society (of commanding people)"
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Ti/Fe-users (xxTP/xxFJ) & especially Ti/Fe-doms (IxTP/ExFJ) tend to build a "flat society (of commanding morals/principles)".
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Disclaimer: I am very abstract, so small (irrelevant) details might be wrong, as this is just a "zoomed-out" explanation. And I talk a about the general here, not about the exceptions.