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The man in Roomette 7, Car No. 2, was a journalist who wrote that it is proper and moral to use compulsion “for a good cause,” who believed that he had the right to unleash physical force upon others—to wreck lives, throttle ambitions, strangle desires, violate convictions, to imprison, to despoil, to murder—for the sake of whatever he chose to consider as his own idea of “a good cause,” which did not even have to be an idea, since he had never defined what he regarded as the good, but had merely stated that he went by “a feeling”—a feeling unrestrained by any knowledge, since he considered emotion superior to knowledge and relied solely on his own “good intentions” and on the power of a gun.
In the constrained vision, with justice as with everything else, “the best is the enemy of the good.”
A Conflict of Visions
Thomas Sowell
Cooks Aktivisten »löschen« jetzt aus ihrer Erhebung 66 Prozent der »neutralen Studien« heraus, diese gehen fortan nicht mehr in die Bewertung ein. Unter den verbliebenen 4014 Beiträgen finden sie plötzlich nur noch 118 Positionen, die sich explizit gegen die These des anthropogenen Klimawandels stellen. Et voilà: Die »Einigkeit von 97 Prozent aller Wissenschaftler« pro anthropogener Klimakrise wurde bewiesen.
Vom Verlust Der Freiheit
Raymond Unger
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