The Evil of Expediency

It is not in anyone s political interest to stand up for you. To do so incurs risk without expedient reward.

We must live beyond expediency: it makes cowards of us all.

The evil consequence of waiting (i.e., letting others fight their own battles) hardens those we should cherish into callow monsters and slick-talking relativists.

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