From the archive

Your principles end where the discount begins

You won't lose your home without this deal. You won't be left without a means of supporting yourself. It just pays more. Or gets your paperwork processed faster. Or buys you an exception nobody else is entitled to. And now you've got a speech ready about how you can't live in a society and be free of it. Mate, you're using philosophy to cover for a discount. Let's at least not turn your savings into a tragedy of the human condition.