Very quick point on political philosophy

In the thread to my post below, gwillikers writes:

All this proves Mr. Tomasky is that everyone who pretends to have morals, beliefs etc. always sells them out for personal gain.

No. Not everyone. It's the people who don't who make the world a better place. George Washington could have been emperor or military dictator of America if he'd wanted to. But he had beliefs and he stuck to them and spurned all such entreaties. That's just one example. All over the world, people every day work for goals in which they have no pressing personal interest, and they usually sacrifice income, comfort, occasionally their lives, for the sake of doing so.

It is of course completely unsurprising that a conservative would say this, though. That's how conservatives see the world. But it's a terrible mistake to believe that everyone is that way, and this world view is really the heart of conservatism's philosophical darkness. So there.

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