Daren, on the flip side of the issue, remember Emerson?s dictum that ?a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.? Not that hypocrisy is good, but obsessively avoiding hypocrisy isn’t. One can take ideological consistency to the point of foolishness. Imagine a libertarian deciding to walk to work, avoiding the public roads, and seeking to compensate every property owner whose land he crossed along the way.