Virtue is its own reward. That's what they say. I can't say I disagree. It's almost a tautology. If you had some incentive to do the right thing, then you're doing it for the incentive, not for the rightness of it. The problem isn't knowing what the right thing is, as some people have said. Nor is it in actually doing it. Both those things are easy. The hard part is living with the consequences. Whenever you're tempted to do The Wrong Thing, you have a million reasons to yield. But you only have one reason to do The Right Thing, and that is because it is right. And you'll never forget all those reasons you turned your back on. It's easy to do anything. The hard part is living with the consequences.

Hypothetically speaking, of course.

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