That idea is you are your brother’s keeper. That’s the flip side of What’s in it for me? If you recognize the first as an expression of virtue and the second as an expression of vice, as I’m sure any student of Father O’Malley would, let Bacon’s distinction add relevance to my concentration on adversity on this graduation day of joy: “Adversity doth best induce virtue . . . while luxury doth best induce vice.”
