The right answer to this question should be obvious. However, we live in a time when language is so abused that things that once seemed obvious are no longer so. But unless we answer this question correctly, we are bound to go wrong, often seriously wrong, in both politics and in our personal lives. For daily and in a hundred different ways, in marriage, parenting, friendship, casual conversations at work or in the grocery store, we face difficult choices where the lines between egotism and integrity can seem blurred. And we are masters of self-deception, prone to calling our comfortable choices “charity” and our uncharitable choices “truth.”
The next election cycle will involve some very challenging and consequential matters, including crime, homelessness, drug addiction, energy, immigration, mental illness, war, gender ideology, religious liberty, school choice, and now with the remarkable reversal of Roe v. Wade, how best to protect unborn children and to provide for vulnerable pregnant women. Missteps may be very costly. So in this relative quiet, before political passions fully heat up, it is very important to get clear on the ethics of compromise.
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