Ask Dr. E: We don’t need authoritarians like you telling us how to live our livesDear Dr. E: You’re a broken record. All you do is play the same song over and over again. All you offer is subservience to some mythical higher power that is little but the figment of your imagination. We don’t need to be governed by your god. And we don’t need authoritarians like you telling us how to live our lives. You revere authorities so much? Well, here’s one for you: ‘Most men want to rule over others.
So, the bottom line is this: Yes, self-control is indeed a moral good. As J.W. von Goethe said, “What is the best government? — That which teaches us to govern ourselves.”John Adams answered this question, “Public virtue cannot exist in a Nation without private virtue, and public virtue is the only Foundation of Republics.”
Then there’s Thomas Jefferson, “No government can continue good but under the control of the people habits of virtue from those of vice … These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.”
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