moral strength

We often tell ourselves: well, everyone is doing it. Everyone is bending the rules just a little. 

And rules are often meant to be bent a little. Or broken outright. But the justification can’t be as simple as everyone else is doing it. 

In fact, “everyone is doing it” is the right argument, but it’s upside down. Somehow flipped internally. Here’s the question we have to ask to get it right:

If everyone behaved this way, would the world be a better place? 

And if the answer is no—which it often is—how could we bring ourselves to act that way?

How could we develop the moral strength to stop?

Thank you. Let’s have a great day.