I don’t believe a single person who will vote on Friday believes that in a real, contingent, uncertain world, the answer to What If? is that it is a question to which we seldom really know the answer. We know what we think we would do, or we think we know what we would do. In an uncertain world it can propose no certainties. We can but acknowledge that in a world of doubts we should not presume to impose on others what we do not really know ourselves.

Source: The Irish Times May 22, 2018 04:00 UTC