Pleaders chỉ đơn giản là đặc biệt, không sẵn sàng thừa nhận rằng có những trường hợp mà trong đó chữa bệnh đề xuất của họ còn tồi tệ hơn so với căn bệnh này. Đối với những người lập luận rằng không bao giờ có được một cuộc chiến tranh chỉ là cuộc chiến tranh chấm dứt chế độ nô lệ tại Mỹ bất công? | The Sources of Our Illusions 85 They are simply special pleaders not willing to acknowledge that there are circumstances in which their proposed cure is worse than the disease. For those who argue that there neverhas beena just war was the war to end slavery in America unjust Was the war to end the Nazi horror unjust Even if one can imagine that slavery and Nazism could have been ended without war does that make the wars to end them unjust or simply unfortunate Wishful thinkers must prove they see the world for what it is - dangerous and treacherous in which our enemies can hide successfully for years - and to do so they must repent their first sin excusing Soviet Communism and condemn Lenin and Stalin to recognize the full evil in the world including the bin Ladens and must show that they really care about the victims and don t simply write them off as unfortunate road kill in the race toward a better future. Continued whitewashing of the Soviets disqualifies wishful thinkers on the left for power in today s world. It has always been a deception using supposedly idealistic goals to try to justify force and brutality. It could be seen as such by moderate people even in the heart of the great ideological controversies of the twentieth century. Glamorizing the Soviets was a vice of the left but there is no need to cite conservative to make the point. We can turn instead to John Maynard Keynes -for decades the darling of liberals because of his advocacy of interventionist economic policies - who saw the deception clearly. Writing in 1926 Keynes said We lack more than usual a coherent scheme of progress a tangible ideal. It is not necessary to debate the subtleties of what justifies a man in promoting his gospel by force for no one has a gospel that is a compelling explanation of the present and ideal for the future . Because no one including the communists had a real vision what they claimed was an ideology of progress was concocted to rationalize the use of force. .
