I’m not telling you what you think. You’re telling us what you think. I’m simply commenting on your comments in the context of the article. That’s generally what we do at FR, right?
Frankly, you couldn’t have done a better job of proving the author to be correct. Thanks.
This argument reminds me of Dostoevsky’s position on religion. It’s not clear whether he actually believed in God (he did not as a young man) but later in life came to the conclusion that religious belief was necessary for order because of people’s capacity to rationalize just about any sort of behavior on their own: ‘without God everything is permissible’. It’s a famous line.