in my little quest of trying to be a better person, i am increasingly aware of the irony that should i wonder if i might actually be "better" than others, i've gone backwards.
in short, the moment i think i am morally superior, i'm no longer superior.
certainly, we all know how annoying self-righteousness and dogmatic virtue is, and we've been consistently disappointed by self-professed saints. besides being annoying, perhaps, one of the great dangers is to fall into the trap of narrow-mindedness, where the worldview is simplified into areas of either good and bad - without realizing everyone else is behaving their own particular way, because it's the only way they know how to.
the real task, as always, is to get all of us to think about our own actions, and ask ourselves to consider whether it was for the best.
