Finally, there is anti-humanitarianism, the natural conservative distrust of the overtly caring, the mawkish and schmaltzy, and the language of therapy and self-growth. Muller wrote: ‘Time and again conservative analysts argue that humanitarian motivation, combined with abstraction from reality, lead reformers to policies that promote behaviour which is destructive of the institutions upon which human flourishing depends.’ And humanitarianism, most of all, is what characterises our age.
