>>>Another "reminds me..."
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>Seems to me that this sort of decency has decayed visibly during our lifetimes. Easiest to call it one of the prices of a secular society, but actually the truth is that many of our generation are unspeakably selfish and proud of it.

I'm not sure how many were like that then, and then switched after being grieved by others.

There's also the part who became such by simply following the prevailing official mantra of the Reagan/Thatcher era, "greed is good".