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I was teaching virtue and knowledge while lying on the side

  • Written by Katherine Moses, Instructional Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion, University of Mississippi
imageVice usually emerges from a series of small permissions and self-deceptions that gather steam.Rafa Elias/Moment via Getty Images

I had been with my boyfriend, Tyler, for almost 10 years when we finally agreed that we should get engaged and married. Up until then, our respective jobs – mine as an academic, his as a fisherman – had forced...

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