Citizens can choose between different baskets of policies every five years and maintain long-term control of their governance. ... The overwhelming majority of states go further than this in redistributing some of the nation's wealth to ease the lives of the poorer members of their society. ... In a particular area or society (say, the Middle East) where there has been no historical basis for the growth of liberal, individualistic values it seems wrong to lay our values as a standard by which to judge their system and call it wrong. ... There is no need to rely on the benevolence or nous ...

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