The secret purpose of the State is to be just, to be principled, so that we don’t have to.

This is not a dig at the State.  This is totally sincere.  There have been cultures and ideologies, throughout our histories, that placed all the burden of principle and justice upon the individual; they were (and are) some of the most anti-human, spirit-crushing, selfhood-destroying idols that we have ever erected.

Go forth into the world, my friend, and become whatever monster your soul demands that you be.  Trust in the institutions that we have built to shoulder the awful weight of Optimal Goodness.  And please, for the love of heaven, don’t undermine those institutions in the name of your own particular provincial desire…