Consistency as you use the word here, and the self realization of it and its importance, only materializes in individuals to which principle is of high importance, because principle is the well from which consistency springs.
Without principle, the only thing an individual is consistently capable of being, is wrong.
In spending ten plus years among the primitives, nothing (and I do mean nothing ) becomes more obvious, than the fact that they as a group, are the most unprincipled bunch that ever existed. It couldn't be more so if their admin made it a written requirement for membership.
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