By James Wood In "All for Nothing," moral imperatives are never free of ignoble interests.
As I think you have even remarked, the implementation of good ideas is too often corrupted by the oldest, often ignoble idea — base self-interest.
This meant, among other things, an ignoble battle among newbies to sponsor bills that would allow them to curry favour with interest groups who would finance their next campaign.
Finally, we need to ask: If companies that use software exploits to compromise targets in the public interest come to learn that other, less savory individuals are using the same exploits for ignoble purposes, do they have an obligation to disclose the problem?
It is ignoble, risky and undignified, but many democratic leaders have experience of putting their own and their party interests ahead of their nation's.
He went on, focusing on the more ignoble stories he had heard about family members who had cut secret deals with media outlets abroad which are interested in exclusive rights to their travails.
There is nothing ignoble about this.
An found his new assignment ignoble.
But was the end, perhaps, more ignoble?
