Realist: but this policy will do evil.
Idealist: yes, but it will be good in an abstract sense!
Please don't believe these words. These words are not meant to replace your own experience or emotions with some faith/ideology/dogma. They are meant to obliterate idealism, that is the falsehood that seeks to subjugate sentient life to a few corrupt life forms through parasite methods. The prime method of enslavement is by mental domination. If you suffer from thoughtstop, doublethink, demoralization or dogmatic thinking, than this antidote might be just the thing for you.
The first step to realism is doing away with what does not exist.
Do not be distracted by the multitude of appearances. Train your skill at deduction. Strip away non-essential aspects of what you are studying, asking hard questions at every layer of truth, until you reach the end result: seeing the nett effect of things.
Put no faith in words. Judge only by the NET EFFECT of actions. If a policy leads to destruction, it is a destructive policy, no matter intentions. Those who still defend a policy that has been proven over a long period to be destructive need to be regarded as either idiots or part of a conspiracy.
Before accepting some Ideal, research all views on it to find out what its recurring net effect is. The words Ideal, Idealism and so on are capitalized to signify the Idealists' claim on absolute submission to their dogma, and thereby, to their power. Idealists cannot stand plain facts that speak against their Ideal. They cannot allow criticism of their Ideals, cannot allow counter-arguments to their claims. This is because they are weak and pathetic beings that seek to dominate others in order to steal their energy, and because the vast segment of ideas are easily proven false, once free discussion takes place.
Net Effect. It is so obvious people do not realize it. It doesn't matter what they SAY. It only matters what they DO. It doesn't matter what ideal or formalism or mysticism they propose. The only thing that matters is what they DO, and what they have consistently DONE.
When an Idealist says to you: I am doing this for your own good, they are going to inflict serious pain on you. When and Idealist starts speaking in a priestly voice about the Gods while holding a ceremonial knife, run, because they are about to start human sacrifices. When an Idealist explains how spreading the wealth around will benefit society, they are referring to giving away OTHER PEOPLES wealth, not their own. When Idealists speak loudly of brotherhood, freedom and equality, they mean a terror-autocracy that kills possible opponents.
A next step is to deduce what is normally hidden. When faced with Idealist preaching such as "all peoples and cultures are equal", it is in the beginning difficult to detect how destructive the result of attempting to implement their Ideals will be, such as the downfall of civilization.
To get a better view, suppose that their goal IS the downfall of civilization. What would their actions be if their goal was the downfall of civilization, and they wanted to succeed and not be stopped half-way because their plan was discovered? Would their actions and words be EXACTLY the same?
We are not rational and knowledgeable enough to know when a group is manipulating us towards our doom, but we are smart enough to view things according to their nett effect, and thus preempt or stop subversion.
Ideals are justifications for material profit, conquest and domination. We human beings have a mental weakness for Ideals because the hordes, parasites and oligarchies of past ages consistently mass-murdered populations that did not submit to their domination. Those that were left were the ones with higher susceptibility to Idealism.
Idealist True Believers do not even understand realists' search for facts and asking of questions. To an Idealist congregation/mob, realists are "obsessed" with coming up with facts that dispute the party line. Idealists are identifiable by their surprise and speechlessness at people who come up with little annoying facts.
There are as many opinions and Ideals as there are people, therefore the wise look not to words, but to the one reality, which is net effect. The goal of a group's actions is the consistent nett effect of those actions, NOT any words/ideas/ideals/abstract concepts. What they BELIEVE is irrelevant, what the nett effect of their actions is is paramount.
Judging by NETT EFFECT is the only way to understand in a world of immense propaganda, insinuation, manipulation, falsification, false flag ops, the big lie, and basically as many opinions as there are people. There is no other viable way of grasping the patterns, reasons, complexity and interdependence of the world. Any other way depends on some set of assumptions or even false logic. Most other ways fail to explain, if enough questions are asked as to why something happened or was done.
There is also almost nothing that can be done against Realism attack along the lines of Nett Effect questioning. That is why it is not taught or presented in schools, because the schools tell you WHAT you are supposed to think, not HOW to triage reality, because the purpose is control, not enlightenment.
One cannot understand wich side is good until one sees the real result, the nett effect of it winning. What side is right cannot be decided on the basis of IDEAS, but is decided on the basis of which produces the most beautiful women, the most beautiful architecture, the most beautiful music and painting, the best dishes, the happiest and most advancing civilization. Those that obstruct you judging what is good by the nett effect of the experience, esthetics and atmosphere of the resulting society are YOUR MORTAL ENEMY.