If we held the state and it’s servants to the same standards as the state sometimes holds private individuals society would collapse. Assange wrote about this i

If we held the state and it’s servants to the same standards as the state sometimes holds private individuals society would collapse. Assange wrote about this in some documents about wilileaks. If the way things actually worked were public people would be calling for heads on spikes. There’s no reason to believe it’s possible to run a state morally and the state enables more human flourishing than the state of nature. The universal hypocrisy is moral.