There is such a thing as truth, and while we can't have a perfect method of arriving at it, we have methods better than polls. People legislate taste, they ign

There is such a thing as truth, and while we can't have a perfect method of arriving at it, we have methods better than polls. People legislate taste, they ignore big problems because "we've always done it like that", etc. This is plain to see. Nobody benefits when a state fails to live up to its purpose, provides both insufficient freedoms with insufficient controls. Sure, an unfeeling despotic utilitarian robot would be an immoral form of government -- we have to take into account anthropic value systems (which will not converge, and require consensus-making in some form) -- but to accept there's no one true system of mores doesn't require assuming there's no single truth.