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Even though moral realism is false, we have to act as if it is true. Otherwise, legislatures and judges can never be wrong, or perhaps democratic majorities can never be wrong. If we want to be able to criticize judgements about morality or justice, we need a standard to measure them by. Since moral realism is false, the account of how this can happen might be a bit complicated. But I would expect that a person who has not reflected on it much would think that it was not impossible for legislators to be unjust, and that while people might change their minds about what is just, or get confused about it, they typically think that what is just doesn’t change. So without further complications, that sounds like moral realism. I could be wrong.

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