The difference between magnificence and arrogance is in what one does when nobody is looking. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

(The error in reasoning is a bit from wishful thinking, because education is considered “good”; I wonder why people don’t make the epiphenomenal association between the wealth of a country and something “bad,” say, decadence, and infer that decadence, or some other disease of wealth like a high suicide rate, also generates wealth.)

Hammurabi's code: He who falsely accuses someone of a crime is to be penaliized as if he committed it himself Applies to all: right,left,...

A partisan's (or an ideologue's) assessment of a situation doesn't depend on the situation.