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>the "will of the people," however misguided it might be, is the only thing that reliably includes not ruining them as a priority! What about a Tragedy of the

• whatshisface 8y ago
  The will of a person is different from the will of all the people averaged together. Even in a society of completely amoral people, each person will think that nobody else should ruin the commons. If you put littering to a vote, you'd have one yes and three hundred million "no"s - everybody would want to stop other people's crimes, and that would be enough. The situation only gets better if anybody is principled. Tinpot dictators ravage their land in pursuit of resources to sell to richer nations all the time. The elites aren't going to be more principled than the proles - if you're nasty and educated that just makes you better at being nasty.