For starters? Belief in a fixed human nature Priority of reason over emotion Government is a necessity, not a teacher Virtue objectively exists and is knowable Patriotism is honorable and right Suspicion of radical change Religion is a positive force

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It is going to be a long month to November, a longer winter to January, and a very long road to 2029. Only way out is through, the way through is out.

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There are moments of extreme exigency where violence, of even that soul-curdling nature, is necessary to forestall a greater evil. This is the opposite. An extravagant and unnecessary indulgence in bloodshed for its own sake against a paraplegic who has already been punished.

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This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.

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