I do believe the intelligent folk around here can handle a discussion on pragmatism vs. righteousness without needing a sugar coating of b.s. pop culture labelling it nedstarkism....
You're right. Funny thing though, my wife made up the name watching Game of Thrones. Ever since then we've been calling it "nedstarkism" in the family. We've been using it for a couple of years now, it was not meant to be sugarcoating, it's just the name we've been using for it :)
Another such dilemma is lecturing vs querying. In the quest to explore the topic of Righteousness vs Pragmatism, the author becomes deceivingly director-like. It'd be more pragmatic of him to explore the topic without spewing out one-all advice
Thanks for your comment. After reading your comment I re-read it and you're right, I was to director-like. Anyway it's already done, but I'll keep in mind to have a more exploratory tone in future articles. I, by no means, was trying to give directives. The whole article itself goes against the idea of following established rules, I'm no one to tell anybody what to do or how to act
It's all good mate, it happens to the best of us. Being objective is tough to maintain when writing pieces out of passionate opinion. I thoroughly enjoyed the article and do think your advice is mostly spot on except towards the end. I can reiterate the article if you are interested in my disagreements.
Hehe, don't think of it as rules, think of them as guidelines. I tried to find the things that I've found are eternal, but then again, I'm no super-wise man
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