"But in the long term, I think it is improper to limit your future"
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The line also smuggles in a tension that’s central to Moore’s public persona: the man who became famous for drawing hard boundaries (especially around law, religion, and authority) suddenly argues against boundaries when the subject is personal trajectory. The subtext is strategic: restrictions are framed as wrong when they constrain the speaker’s or audience’s horizon, but not necessarily when they constrain others through rules and hierarchies. It’s freedom talk with an asterisk.
Context matters because Moore isn’t a motivational influencer; he’s a jurist and political figure whose career has been defined by conflict with institutional limits. Read that way, “in the long term” hints at legacy - the idea that today’s constraints are temporary obstacles to tomorrow’s vindication. It’s a sentence built to justify stubbornness. Not “keep your options open,” but “don’t accept the premise that anyone gets to close them.” In Moore’s mouth, self-determination becomes a legal-moral argument, one designed to make personal ambition sound like principle.
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