Thoughts without prayers.
There is a stark difference between someone who abandons their pursuit of power because they recognize a certain inherent corruption, and one who stops only because they can never attain it and they know that to be impossible.
There is a well crafted façade in the second, pretending to have had the means or opportunity, so that the withdrawal appears as a principled moral choice. In doing so, one can claim the moral high ground, masking the fact that their “renunciation” was born from limitation, not virtue.
Comfortable and virtuous aren't the same.
There is a well crafted façade in the second, pretending to have had the means or opportunity, so that the withdrawal appears as a principled moral choice. In doing so, one can claim the moral high ground, masking the fact that their “renunciation” was born from limitation, not virtue.
Comfortable and virtuous aren't the same.
