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Originally Posted by Perun
Americans are also prone to believe that morality should play an important role in politics. As the prominent sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset writes, “Americans are utopian moralists who press hard to institutionalize virtue, to destroy evil people, and eliminate wicked institutions and practices.”
The American proclivity for moralizing conflicts with the fact that realists tend not to distinguish been good and bad states, but instead discriminate between states largely on the basis of their relative power capacities.
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One thing is morality, the other thing is moralizing.
These are two very different notions...