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The Problem of Political Authority

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You Don't Sketch Out a Theory of Rights or Property as Your Starting Point

I think there's no way that, for example, you could be justified in starting from utilitarianism if you weren't justified in just common sense moral intuitions, right? That little bit further actually, yes. So, i mean, the judgment that i'm relying on, like, you shouldn't extort money from people, that's more obvious than the judgment that the right action is always the action that maximises total utility of society by max told utility principle. You know, it's not obviously wrong, and, you know, it seems plausible to many people, but it's quite controversial. It's hard for me to see how somebody could reject the more obvious on the basis

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