> And here I’d been thinking that this forum had plumbed every possible depth of moralizing condescension. <
It’s a shame that you spent so much time on that post. Because I stopped reading at your first insult.
“It’s a shame that you spent so much time on that post. Because I stopped reading at your first insult.”
Each of us faces a choice: we can be moralistic, or we can be effective.
To choose the first is to negate the possibility of the second. And the ineffective don’t last long in the real world: that’s the one we lesser mortals have to live in. As opposed to our self-appointed moral arbiters - who inhabit a world they think our forebears lived in, before 1914 (give or take). A realm of fantasy.