From the archive

Your principles end where the discount begins

Next usually comes the hunt for someone else's imperfections. Where do you shop, then? What phone do you have? Who do you pay taxes to? You're desperate to find some compromise the other person has made that will let you stop discussing your own decisions altogether. But someone else's inconsistency doesn't make your deal a good one. They might have a problem of their own. Now there are two. Congratulations: your investigation added more questions instead of answering the first one. You don't have to become a saint to refuse one specific piece of bullshit you're capable of refusing right now.