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Ideologues often don't that care much about being professional or reasonable.
by mcantelon 7y ago
Ideologues often don't that care much about being professional or reasonable.
- Porthos9K 7y agoSometimes you reach a point where being reasonable and professional becomes counterproductive. Sometimes you reach a point where the doublethink necessary to seem reasonable and professional leaves you despising yourself. Sometimes it isn't enough to ask, "What would John Galt do?" In times like these, sometimes the only reasonable question is, "What would Howard Roark do?" His answer, when his work was misused in a manner he could no longer bear to tolerate, was to break out the dynamite.
- mcantelon 7y agoAn ethos that can be used to justify anything, given sufficiently crafted and amplified rhetoric.
- Porthos9K 7y agoSpeaking of crafted and amplified rhetoric, let's get back to Barry Crist's justification for allowing Chef to continue to due business with ICE. He invokes principle to seem high-minded, but his guiding principle is not patriotism but profit. He is merely hiding behind patriotism. All I am doing is drawing upon literature (I am using the term loosely, but I suspect it is probable that more HN members have read The Fountainhead than the Iliad) to show that being able to live with yourself and the uses to which your work is put is more important than seeming "professional" or "reasonable".