In the guise, often, of teaching tolerance, we are failing to ensure that our children understand how to frame moral issues and make judgments about right conduct and about what is good in life.
Then Bates decided to turn her frustration into good by helping raise awareness about lymphedema, which can develop in a percentage of cancer patients who have their lymph nodes removed.
Or perhaps Temple, a pray-to-earn game, linked to a network of nondenominational meditation spaces where players can perform coordinated acts of care to level up on the good works board.
Indeed, doing good simply for the sake of some postponed heavenly benefit would be to undermine altruism not to support it. Goodness should be its own reward.
But this is a sordid consideration compared with the inward satisfaction, the glow and expansion of soul which attend a good action done for itself alone.