Tag: Virtue
A curious affliction. Here I reflect on the burden of virtue and the delightful paradoxes of living an unexamined life.
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Day 4: The Vexation of Virtue
There is a modern ailment, and a most dreadful one it is, that one finds particularly odious: the overwhelming desire to be ‘good’. Everyone, it seems, wishes to be a moral paragon, a beacon of virtue, and a tiresome example to the rest of humanity. They parade their tedious kindnesses and their even more tedious…