High And Low Roads

Jim Henley travels them:

I don't presently care to argue that there is never any "need" to godown any given low road. In some cases I may support some low roads forsome purposes. Locking up murderers, for instance. In other cases –torture – I have a much easier time saying "Never go there." But whatwe see over and over again is that we judge high-road approaches asfailures unless they produce nigh-instant and complete favorableresults, while we show nearly infinite patience for journeys down...