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Let us resolve...

“All right, wise guy. If our disorder can’t be cured by politics, what’s your big idea?” I haven’t one. But I can suggest a place to start.

Let each of us resolve, once and for all, I will not do evil so that good will result.

Think it over carefully. Consider all the things that a person must stop believing, start believing, or remember, just for the resolution to make sense.

Source. (Emphasis added)

Thanks to @ReaderJohn for the link.

One pretty obvious first observation is that resolving not to do evil so that good will result almost automatically cuts us off from the political sphere.