The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe. Spinoza once made a profound comment: “Men believe a thing when they behave as though it were true.” Perhaps you have to make the compromise, but I wonder if you do not pay too high a price for it, if it does not have a detrimental effect on character. You have to learn to live with yourself. Are you going to feel you have weakened yourself as a person because you didn’t stand for something you thought was fundamentally right?
