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In reply to the discussion: I refuse to let cynicism make me bitter.. [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)And changes are often both positive and negative at once and weighting the positives versus the negatives is where judgement comes in.
Do you treat your work that way, just good enough? Or do you strive for the best you can do all the time?
I do several things that I put a lot of effort into getting as perfect as I possibly can, finding ways around the limitations of your tools is part of the drill.
Thirty years ago I envied my kids the world they were coming into, now I'm aghast and undone at what I have bequeathed them. Ironically it was the way DU changed when Obama was elected that really made me see how things were. All of a sudden some people who were virulently against the war started justifying it. Since then I've watched the same sort of thing play out enough times to know many of the Democrats are no better at having a self consistent moral framework than the Republicans. Truth be told I know conservatives who are more self consistent than some of the supposed liberals here, I think they're wrong about a lot of things but they do try to maintain a consistent moral standard and I positively like and admire some of them who make a real contribution to the world in terms of blood, sweat and tears, life and death.