righteousness

Of course the insane fake lefty moralists will pretend moral righteousness and champion google's to block itself in China.

Now they missed their chances, swapping results for the fake payoff of a misguided sense of righteousness.

Whose job is it to establish the norms of righteousness where they are lacking, or significantly degraded?

Ignore any kind of theoretical rope and start the path to righteousness _ /now/ _.

Smug self-righteousness and self congratulation seem to get a lot of upvotes on Hacker News.

Voting is participating in the delusion that the state has legitimate moral authority to imbue unrighteous people with righteousness in the first place.

What happens if the community lacks the social norms to enforce righteousness, especially with respect to the property rights and justification of violence?

By making a few alterations to the composition of the justice system, corrupt societies could be made to transition to a state called ‘righteousness’.

That may work in many cases, but the article seems to assume that most individuals in any community will promote righteousness in the community's interest.

Most of them don't, and your comment, to people like me who had to claw ourselves out of the trap, smacks of self-righteousness and contempt.

Try to explain that one in all your sovereigness and self-righteousness.

But when there is no identity and you could never find one do you get stuck in an infinite loop of righteousness or do you move on?

Righteousness is a problem in of itself at times, and the vision of "common good" enforced by the citizens in general will not necessarily be good.