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Originally Posted by Grimbl420
What your describing is a difference in ideology. Both can be pragmatists if both are achieving their desired goals through action, which both seem to be doing in your examples.
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Can I take from this that you see no difference between an action undertaken solely out of a desire to be morally righteous, and one taken to simply keep the lights on?
If so, I disagree; I think there is a clear difference between the two. Typically, governments take both types of actions, and it's generally clear which is which (though there are certainly some policies that fall into a gray area). Whether one type of action is better for governments is a separate question, obviously, but I fail to understand why you would think they're the same.