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Social problems aren't objective in the way that, say, math problems are. They are conflicts of the current state of objective reality with some set of subjective preferences. And the fact that a group of people shares preference to an extent that they can agree on the problem doesn't mean that they share preferences enough that the same solution would be optimum—or even better than the status quo—for all members of the group.


You made a very interesting point here, I guess I will re-evaluate my opinion on this topic, thanks!




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