Feeling Good About Behaving Badly

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“This is the lie that is at the heart of our society, the lie that encourages every form of destructive self-indulgence to flourish: for while we ascribe our conduct to pressures from without, we obey the whims that well up from within, thereby awarding ourselves carte blanche to behave as we choose. Thus we feel good about behaving badly” (Theodore Dalrymple, Life at the Bottom, p. 122).

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