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To: combjelly who wrote (294495)	7/12/2006 4:17:51 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1573963

"End goals are properly set that way." When that is done, you all too often get to the "ends justify the means". Whatever your ends you can try to get people to support questionable means to achieve them. There really is no other way to set large scale, long term goals. Pragmatism is not an objective or a way of determining end objectives, its only a way of achieving objectives. I'm not dumping on pragmatism, it certainly has its place, and is usually a good thing but it can not possibly answer big questions about what we want the nation or the world to be like. Once you come to your big picture long range view, and figure out your values and desires, and ideas about how the world could be better, you might avoid certain steps towards those goals for pragmatic reasons. Maybe the steps are to risky or harmful, maybe success in moving to a particular goal isn't realistic right now. So pragmatism is still important.