tive view, cannot, for instance, allow that one of the goals of legislation should be to make people virtuous in one or another meaning of that term, is that this would involve a violation of its procedural norm. For, given the diversity of
modern societies, it would unfailingly be the case that some people and not others would be commited to the favored
conception of virtue. They might be in a majority; indeed, it is very likely that they would be, for otherwise a democratic society probably would not espouse their view. Nevertheless, this view would not be everyone’s view, and in espousing
this substantive outlook the society would not be treating the dissident minority with equal respect. It would be saying to them, in effect, “your view is not as valuable, in the eyes of this polity, as that of your more numerous compatriots.”