Liberals need to be taught that bad means always corrupt a noble end. In fact the statist means used to achieve an ideal goal is the long-term, unintended consequence, of socialism, but it is not the noble end, itself.
Action executed is much more permanent in causal potency that the theory or motive driving the actor to act.
Therefore, to achieve social justice, peace, easing of poverty or warring by utilizing such vehicles as coercion, regulators and legislating restrictions on the liberties of the people do little for very long to improve the human lot. The unintended consequence is the expansion of the state' reach and penetration into private lives, and that poor means necessarily leads to an increase in any inequity or form of injustice, not their minimization.
To use force or the state club to push others to enact a reform is to expand evil, grow group-living and enslave more people. Nothing good can or will grow out of it.
For this reason, compliance with my suggestion to others to adopt Mavellonialism as a way of life is something that cannot be imposed. People must choose to be free and developed, on their own, or not at all.
The ethics of moderation entail that a bad means, a means of external coercion, always generates a corrupted, awry end, the unintended consequence. Each individual, of her own free will, must adopt a reform or not. There is no short cut, no quick victory to be had.
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