All Good Things: not compatible

By declaring other values “good,” which is itself a value, we conflate and redefine them as familial. At best, they are a dysfunctional group that is variously at odds and antagonistic to each other.

The optimistic view…that all good things must be  compatible , and that therefore freedom, order, knowledge, happiness…must be at least  compatible , and perhaps even entail one another in a systematic fashion…is not self-evidently true… Indeed, it is perhaps one of the least plausible beliefs ever entertained by profound and influential thinkers.”

Isaiah Berlin