[sputr]

Are (pragmatic) views really a problem? I'm not so sure. Depends on what you are trying to achieve.

If you're trying to change people's values (i.e. from "who care about the environment" to "we need to protect the environment") than pragmatism isn't the way to go.

But if you want to convert values (i.e. "we need to protect the environment") into actual real world results, well in that case pragmatism is the only way to go.

Look at the whole green energy discussion. If the green movement contained its activism to fossil fuels and turned pragmatic on the topic of alternatives ... we would be living in a much cleaner world today.

But they didn't and as a result, they radically reduced their net positive effect on the world.