Exactly. The video is suspiciously one-sided: Now, how about we take a moment to include the positive manifestations of this principle? Rather than demanding 100% of what you want - and patting yourself on the back for being "principled", while getting 0% of what you claim to want - you drop the hubris, and adapt to external realities, in order to actually accomplish practical change over time; preferably, by subtracting from, rather than adding to, systems which are designed to suppress individual freedoms by transferring power to central planners (i.e. despots)? - INFJ
If you are willing to abandon your principles for convenience, or social acceptability, they are not your principles, they are your costume. All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts corrupt personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the character disturbed. Power reveals character, it does not corrupt it.
Now, how about we take a moment to include the positive manifestations of this principle? Rather than demanding 100% of what you want - and patting yourself on the back for being "principled", while getting 0% of what you claim to want - you drop the hubris, and adapt to external realities, in order to actually accomplish practical change over time; preferably, by subtracting from, rather than adding to, systems which are designed to suppress individual freedoms by transferring power to central planners (i.e. despots)?
Um, okay. Now, how about we take a moment to include the positive manifestations of this principle? Rather than demanding 100% of what you want - and patting yourself on the back for being "principled", while getting 0% of what you claim to want - you drop the hubris, and adapt to external realities, in order to actually accomplish practical change over time; preferably, by subtracting from, rather than adding to, systems which are designed to suppress individual freedoms by transferring power to central planners (i.e. despots)?
As an ENTP incrementalism is our greatest strength, ofcourse i am gonna use this slippery slope in a good way to end my procrastination
Exactly. The video is suspiciously one-sided: Now, how about we take a moment to include the positive manifestations of this principle? Rather than demanding 100% of what you want - and patting yourself on the back for being "principled", while getting 0% of what you claim to want - you drop the hubris, and adapt to external realities, in order to actually accomplish practical change over time; preferably, by subtracting from, rather than adding to, systems which are designed to suppress individual freedoms by transferring power to central planners (i.e. despots)?
- INFJ
If you are willing to abandon your principles for convenience, or social acceptability, they are not your principles, they are your costume.
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts corrupt personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the character disturbed.
Power reveals character, it does not corrupt it.
Now, how about we take a moment to include the positive manifestations of this principle? Rather than demanding 100% of what you want - and patting yourself on the back for being "principled", while getting 0% of what you claim to want - you drop the hubris, and adapt to external realities, in order to actually accomplish practical change over time; preferably, by subtracting from, rather than adding to, systems which are designed to suppress individual freedoms by transferring power to central planners (i.e. despots)?
Thanks for your explications
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Um, okay. Now, how about we take a moment to include the positive manifestations of this principle? Rather than demanding 100% of what you want - and patting yourself on the back for being "principled", while getting 0% of what you claim to want - you drop the hubris, and adapt to external realities, in order to actually accomplish practical change over time; preferably, by subtracting from, rather than adding to, systems which are designed to suppress individual freedoms by transferring power to central planners (i.e. despots)?