Define “right thing”. All millionaire VCs and billionaires are now politically VERY ACTIVE. Why?
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All? Doesn’t seem like even 50% to me. Most wealthy people live relatively silent, invisible lives
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Sometimes doing the right thing is radical.
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Definitely. But the converse, that the radical thing required by ideology x is always the right thing, is basically never true, for any popular x.
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Sure, some people take the middle course as a matter of principle. But if there are two different factions and each is right half the time, then someone who always chooses the right thing will also end up in the middle. The former is a sort of ideology, but not the latter.
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Your phrase "the right thing" needs a lot more unpacking, since ideology is ostensibly all about having different opinions on what the right thing is.
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How your determine what you believe is "the right thing" is by definition an ideology, whether or not it fits or cuts across the ideologies commonly followed by other people.
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This is equivocation. There are forms of motivations, intentions and goals—even strong ones—which are non-ideological on a plain understanding of the term. Ideologies arise when deltas between these things become habitual and institutional.
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Or, working backwards from Churchill's definition of a fanatic, a moderate is one willing to change his mind and willing to change the subject.
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