Joe Gosselin: Justifying selfishness
Lane Tracy’s Dec. 25 letter “Squandering, not conserving” brought to mind a quote from economist John Kenneth Galbraith: “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
Joe Gosselin
Raleigh
This story was originally published January 3, 2016 at 12:56 PM with the headline "Joe Gosselin: Justifying selfishness."