[SwimmingUpstream]

It is usually deliberate obtuseness or dishonesty when one particularizes a general statement and uses it as a basis for argument, as you have done.

I note you have made no substantive reply to my objections to your utilitarian calculus. Instead you have chosen antics. That is your privilege.

[Torie]

my objections

You mean Russell Kirk's objections? His airy generalizations and lack of definition of terms makes your chosen quote totally useless for discussion.