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“In the same way, if a man asks what is the point of behaving decently, it is no good replying, "in order to benefit society," for trying to benefit society, in other words being unselfish (for "society" after all only means "other people"), is one of the things decent behaviour consists in; all you are really saying is that decent behaviour is decent behaviour. You would have said just as much if you had stopped at the statement, "Men ought to be unselfish.” — C.S. Lewis
In the same way, if a man asks what is the point of behaving decently, it is no good replying, "in order
to benefit society," for trying to benefit society, in other words being unselfish (for "society" after all
only means "other people"), is one of the things decent behaviour consists in; all you are really saying
is that decent behaviour is decent behaviour. You would have said just as much if you had stopped at
the statement, "Men ought to be unselfish.