That's not what OP said; they said it's society's job to social engineer government. Politics is the allocation of scarce resources; so by definition it exhibi

That's not what OP said; they said it's society's job to social engineer government. Politics is the allocation of scarce resources; so by definition it exhibits preferences in those allocations, whether the whim of a tyrant, an iron law of utility, or a social contract. Guns versus butter is the toy example from macroeconomics 101, but absolutely government is the net sum of its opportunity costs.