Truth disappears wherever double standards appear. My friends are my allies, my enemy’s’ friends are his proxies.
Truth, however, has a more terrible enemy: when standards disappear altogether, when the absence of standards becomes the standard. The denial of ethics becomes ethics. This is what whataboutism is.
I kill, but everyone kills or would like to kill. I lie, but everyone lies or, deep down, considers lying the best means of survival. I am an egotist, but everyone is an egotist.
28 March, 2026