Rob a bank to help the church? That's not pragmatic. That is being dumb. End justifies the means is not pragmatic too. If everyone does that then it will be a bad output. Pragmatism involves continual adjustment and fine tuning and stopping before it becomes a bigger problem that it solves. But at the same time forces you to adapt to circumstances and evaluate short term and long term results plus context. At it's core is better off as a virtue of individual choice... fight flee ignore fix compromise. It might also be pragmatic to sacrifice one's self for others or not.... In the end pragmatism is just game theory finding equilibrium and people that exploit will be corrected eventually

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