Virtue, I discover, is not its own reward.
In the past three days, I have voted (for some county commissioners and a couple of school board aspirants and local judges--all non-partisan races since I do not belong to a party) and donated platelets. Those are my demonstrably virtuous deeds for this week. In both cases, the people monitoring the events were not willing to let virtue be its own reward. Oh, no.
They gave me cookies!
Cookies for voting! Cookies for donating blood! And a T-shirt, too, for the blood thing but the important point here is: Cookies!! A pecan sandy for my vote, and chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin for my white corpuscles.
Yes, I can be bought, and I'm cheap, too!
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