Aristotle said character was a kind of rule utilitarianism where you're choosing habits that if you were always to do this thing, you would be a better person and you'd be happier. So I'm the sort of person who returns wallets because I have cultivated that over time so not only do I believe it, it's actually true. And then I have this chance to return a wallet and I do it because I know that I am the sort of people who returns wallets. That is a mythology unless I in fact when presented with that setting act in that way. Now, you might be able to create a set of conditions where I would break that habit. But for some people,

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