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Comment author: dspeyer 21 February 2013 02:34:51AM 11 points [-]

It seems almost self-evident that (barring foreign subjugation) a government will care about the wants of (some of) its citizens and nothing else

That is not at all self-evident.

While moral realism is widely recognized as absurd

While some people believe this, it is not widely recognized.

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