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by baddox 4752 days ago
I believe that the truth values of ethical sentences are subjective (actually, I believe that ethical sentences don't have truth values, but that's a longer story), so while I certainly have ethical preferences for how individuals and organizations should behave, I only approve of "enforcing" my preferences through my own social/commercial choices, rather than utilizing external violence (like government regulation) to enforce my ethical preferences.
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Government literally does nothing but enforce ethical preferences (all action decisions, government or otherwise, must be based on value preferences), so this is equivalent to saying you don't support the existence of government.
That's correct. I don't support the existence of government.