How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

by Michael Schur

Nearly every single thing we do has some ethical component to it, whether we realize it or not. That means we owe it to ourselves to learn what the hell ethics is and how it works, so we don’t screw everything up all the time. We share this planet with other people. Our actions affect those people. If we care at all about those people, we ought to figure out how to make the best decisions we can.

Like, it’s hard for me to imagine a greater happiness than watching a basketball game and eating a sleeve of Nutter Butters, but am I flourishing when I do that? Is that my maximum possible level of fulfillment? Is that the be-all and end-all of my personal potential? (My brain keeps trying to answer “Yes!”

‘knowledge makes men gentle,’ just as ignorance hardens us.”