Word: expostion
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Profiteers are sometimes inclined to invoke expost facto rationalizations for their selfish accumulation of inordinate wealth. They occasionally emphasize their desire to re-imagine selfishly procured wealth, upon their retirement, as wealth selflessly donated to charity. This ends-justify-the-means rationale is both a moral fiasco and a logical pretzelism. It feebly attempts to justify the convenient self-interestedness of a socially irresponsible "career" by miraculously spawning an altruistic intention to "direct funds toward" the world's betterment, after the fact. Why spend life canceling oneself out? Why imbue some corpulent, guilt-ridden check with the vicarious virtue that...
...better to bring down today so as to build a better tomorrow on its ruins, then the choices are clear to you. If or when totalitarianism comes to America, I'll be curious to see how many Crimson editors will find their way to doing the honorable and expost morally correct thing...
...continually postponed. It was supposed that defense would be offered on the basis that the Government had to indemnify the industrialists for their losses in order to prevent the secession of the Ruhr and Rhineland from Germany. Eventually the Government will ask the Reichstag to give its expost facto agreement to the disbursed credits...
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