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Why doing the 'right thing' can bring out your worst impulses

My electric car makes me feel guilty when I see gas prices hurting my neighbors, but also superior in a way that disgusts me. I wanted to do the right thing environmentally and somehow it made me judgmental.

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Moral choices can paradoxically awaken the very self-righteousness they were meant to transcend.

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