What is wrong with Kashmir? Everything that is wrong with the place can be reduced to the following five bad ideas:

a) Utopia-seeking: A consequence of non-fallibilism. The idea that freedom (referred to as “azadi” by some) is a state rather than a process.

b) Consequentialism: that all means to achieve a state are moral if the state is moral.

c) Essentialism: imbuing physical territory with abstractions of ownership based on religion - Muslim / Hindu land.

d) Gambler’s Ruin: increasing the stakes to chase a positive expected payoff way beyond one’s financial (and moral) liquidity.

e) Moral Relativism: the idea that morality is subjective and different standards apply based on cultural priors.