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To: tejek who wrote (3331)	3/10/2009 12:00:49 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3816

Well you can be pragmatic in the sense that your motivation is to make things better, but then anyone can have that type of motivation, communists, socialists, fascists, etc., all tend to think they are working to make things better (at least to a similar degree that people with more mainstream political views think the same thing), but the point is that the ideas they fight for, just about never actually do make things better. So you have pragmatic intentions, but not pragmatic effects. Then again pragmatic isn't often a very useful word. Anyone can have pragmatic intentions and most people do, and as for pragmatic results, well that depends on what you consider better. Your criteria for "good results" can't really itself be pragmatic, otherwise pragmatic becomes a tautology.