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It seems an unfortunate truth that moral purity is impossible for the leaders of the largest countries. Every decision is made with complex trade-offs and regre
by macintux 5y ago
It seems an unfortunate truth that moral purity is impossible for the leaders of the largest countries. Every decision is made with complex trade-offs and regrettable consequences even for the “right” choice.
- creato 5y agoAnd this is why it is so destructive when low effort peanut gallery commentary gains traction in society.
- macintux 5y agoThe era of the soundbite has radically transformed politics, and definitely not for the better.
- staticautomatic 5y agoIt’s hard for me to understand how holding people to account for sponsoring genocides means holding them to an impossible standard of moral purity. This strikes me as a straw man.
- ttyprintk 5y agoNo op, but in 1981 Noam Chomsky said that weapons to Indonesia were to guarantee submarine access through the Sunda strait.