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you could say, a certain latitude or indeterminacy
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in how our behavior distinguishes us from other species.
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It is precisely, he believes, this latitude that
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makes political communities not only sites of agreement over
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shared standards, but also, as he says,
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sites of moral contestation over justice and injustice.
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Politics is about conflict and conflicts over justice.
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To be a political animal, for him, is to engage or to be
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engaged in this ongoing conversation and debate over the very
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nature of justice, to refuse to participate in that
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conversation, to declare oneself an outsider to it,
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he says, is either to be below humanity or above it.