The Three Virtues We Need
By Philip Pullman from Gaurdian.
"At first sight, of course, vice is more attractive. She is sexier, she promises to be better companythan her plain sister virtue. Every novelist, and every reader too, has
more fun with the villains than with the good guys. Goodness is staunch
and patient, but wickedness is vivid and dynamic; we admire the first,
but we thrill to the second.Nevertheless, I want to say a word
in praise of virtue: the quality or qualities that enable a nation and
its citizens to live well, by which I mean morally well."
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