Absent Idealism, Difficulty of Arrival at ‘Beneficial’ Pragmatism

As the story goes, the best people on face of the earth are best described as, Pragmatic. Pragmatic persons do not have head-in-the-sky syndrome. In an imperfect world, pragmatic persons understand that absolute perfection is, in entirety, a misnomer.

How can anyone have any knowledge of what exactly constitutes absolute perfection if life itself inherently is imperfect?

But what then does it mean to be Pragmatic? Well, a pragmatic person shoots for whatever is achievable, does not insist on what can be described as ‘perfect solutions’.

But is a perfect solution the same thing as an ‘ideal solution’? A perfect solution refuses to take cognizance of constraints that exist on a society; demands simultaneity of attenuation of constraints, and implementation of perfect solutions.

An ideal solution is the solution that, conditional on current state of society, equivalently, conditional on current constraints, best moves society towards achievement of it’s objectives.

In an imperfect world, typically, perfect solutions turn out inherently self contradictory.