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16. "The modern conservative...

Reply to Hotler (Reply #11)

Sat Nov 22, 2025, 05:05 PM

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...is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness".

-- John Kenneth Galbraith

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oh but.... Quanto Magnus Saturday #21

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