"In my class we're going over the works of Samuel Johnson, man there were a lot of quotes in those times about virtue and vice! So I got to thinking, were they more virtuous then than we are today?"
"Aw hell no! They weren't no more virtuous or full of vice than we are today. They just THOUGHT about it more. With a lot more intensity, y'might say. They knew when they were being virtuous or succumbing to their vices. The only different of today is that we've gotten rid of this whole concept of shame, so we simply call virture and vice 'personal choices' so we don't have to think about them."
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