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If they are "reasonable standards", it shouldn't matter what the source of them are.

This appeals to a dangerous view of morality where some entities/people are good/bad intrinsically and all their actions are good/bad by definition.

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They are not objectively "reasonable standards". Who said they are objectively reasonable standards? They are standards sent by a unitary. They might seem reasonable to one person but not to another. This is why Congress is supposed to set these rules - so that the definition of reasonable is spread all over the country. Reasonable standards are a discovery process, not a unitary dictatorial step.

Hell, this is the whole logic of the American Republic - no kings - since 1776.

> Reasonable standards are a discovery process, not a unitary dictatorial step.

You just described a meta standard for standards. Now, is that meta standard an objectively reasonable standard?

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