Lessons learned from Plutarch

.....as applied to parallel lives lived by today's politicos, and the disparate reactions to each of these lives,and based upon the different political orientations of the parties discussed.

Guess who always got the hypercritical reactions from the Tanksters, the Nutroots, and their Usual Suspect allies?

Professer Victor Davis Hanson provides the lesson.

Noteworthy:

"I could go on and on with these Plutarachean examples of Parallel Lives but you get the picture. Here, the contrast is not the respective virtues of Greece and Rome. Nor is there any regret whatsoever that liberals of good faith thankfully scrutinize the bad judgment and even criminal activity of wayward conservatives. The problem instead is why we continuously consider liberal transgressions as misdemeanors and their conservative counterparts as felonies.

If Plutarch once believed that action, not intention matters (otherwise, as Aristotle noted, we could all be moral in our sleep), we moderns believe the reverse — that proper thinking can often excuse improper acts."

Comparative moralities, or just agenda fulfilling rationalizations?

"Or maybe less cynically — in the minds of self-appointed liberal moralists concerned about the greater good — exalted ends at times necessarily entail regrettable means."