Virtuous Aristotelian friendship centered on loving our country and respectful disagreement is what we need in America. If you’ve got a better way to help poor people, I want to hear it. If I don’t think it’s a good enough way to help poor people, I’m going after your argument with everything I’ve got. You actually can’t exercise the Aristotelian virtue adequately unless there’s disagreement. The highest expression of this Aristotelian ideal is that two people totally disagree on a substantive thing but are willing to debate each other on it, precisely because they both care so much about the
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