Well-meaning efforts to eliminate the evils of selfishness by eliminating self can have as regressive an effect on a community as taking away self by force. Preserving community by eliminating self is as counterproductive as trying to prevent the scourge of fire by eliminating air. The “cloistered virtue” approach to life will support neither the growth of a society nor the development of the kind of leaders that a society requires in order to evolve.
