> ...It requires being good in politics... Well, Bernard Crick's definition of good politics is "ethics done in public". One can obviously quibble with that (

> ...It requires being good in politics... Well, Bernard Crick's definition of good politics is "ethics done in public". One can obviously quibble with that (ethical negotiation is generally informal and goal-directed in a way that political activities or processes can't feasibly be), but the basic point stands - what exactly is wrong with expecting people to be ethical?