Conformity, Cruelty, and Political Activism

David Foster, over at his substack Conformity, Cruelty, and Political Activism, which includes some early and mid-1900s political history.

Although most assume that an immoral person is one who is ready to defy law and convention to get what they want, I think the inverse is often true. Immorality is frequently motivated by a readiness to conform to law and convention in opposition to our own values.