The Principle Is Your Pal 0
At Bloomberg, Stephen L. Carter ruminates on “principles.”
I can’t say that I agree with all his conclusions or examples, but I do think it’s worth a read. Here are two snippets:
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Too much of life nowadays revolves around the notion that self-interest is a principle. It isn’t. It’s just an animal instinct — a useful one, to be sure, in the functioning of markets, but a dangerous one to unleash on an entire society. When we fret about the epidemic of academic cheating, for example, what we are really seeing is the predictable result of the abandonment of principle by we adults who are supposed to be setting an example.