The Good Person would be replaced by the Impressive Person; and what would impress would be the breaking of rules without punishment; the bearable lightness of being. Where once there were the principled, now there would be the opportunists; the clever would displace the pious. These new moralists would not be amoral, because they would depend on the law for their new morality. They would be self-confessed double agents. They would be able to practise their duplicity only by advertising it. Being caught would be the crime.
