This sentence by Van Gogh hits hard:
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
“Oh the citizens are part”
When an exam officer leaves the room, how many of you continue quietly without engaging in exam malpractice? Human beings will do what serves their best interest if they can get away with it.
A functioning society isn’t built on the assumption that everyone will be virtuous. It’s built on systems that make doing the right thing easy and doing the wrong thing costly.