[governance] Concern for future

[Eric Dierker]

Paul Lehto wrote:
 
"""What's objectionable to me, because it creates the danger of
pathology, is the risk of intentionally or unintentionally abandoning
important ideals as ultimate goals on the grounds that they are
utopian and not practical, pie in the sky and not achievable, etc.
That can all be considered to be true, and yet it is still dangerous
pathology to abandon the ideal, and it is ill advised to discredit the
ideal such as Honesty with arguments that it is utopian, naive,
unachievable in fact, and not workable or very facilitative of
tangible measurable goals."""
 
Does this include voting - shouldn't we try even though it may be imperfect?
 
 
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