We have a special name, here, for a certain kind of failure to defer to the greater good—for putting a personal sense of — Greg Egan, The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred
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We have a special name, here, for a certain kind of failure to defer to the greater good—for putting a personal sense of — Greg Egan, The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred
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We have a special name, here, for a certain kind of failure to defer to the greater good—for putting a personal sense of doing right above any objective measure of the outcome. It’s called ‘moral vanity’.

— Greg Egan, The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred
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