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At the book launch for *In Defence of Politics*, Morteza Mardiha argued that viewing government as a necessary evil stems from an 'unscientific anthropology'. This outlook, dominant in political culture, casts the people as innocent and the state as the source of all ills.

From time immemorial, the political ruler was seen in the eyes of the general public as akin to a tyrannical being from whom no good could be expected. Although today's governments lack many of the characteristics of previous ones, they are nevertheless considered by many to be a necessary evil, and labels such as
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