Meanwhile, sadly, Team Liberty slips into the utilitarian habit of thinking that we can make ourselves better by not making anyone else worse.

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If I were to reduce our counter-productive speaking to a single motivation, it would be this: We often speak to make ourselves feel better in the short-term.

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How can we better equip ourselves to make better decisions both in the voting booth and in public policy?

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On a Thursday night I am sure we will make a better account of ourselves on national television.

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And it can make us feel better about ourselves.

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And a better understanding of what drove the numbers down can steer us toward doing things that make people better off rather than congratulating ourselves on how moral we are.

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The question is can we make enough progress in the PC space to establish ourselves there, and also figure out better ways of addressing mobile before Apple takes over the living room?

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So our attitude is, better to pay now and make an investment in improving the health care system rather than waiting and finding ourselves in a situation where we can't fix it.

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