Common sense calls for the virtue of civility in our contemporary lives

Paul Krugman’s “Default is in our Stars”(September 25 NY Times) is another reason economics is called the dismal science and that philosophy is called the queen of sciences. Call me naive but common sense calls for the virtue of civility in our contemporary lives. Civility is the disciplining of our passions for the sake of living a common life with our fellow citizens. Whereas leading lives only according to our own selfish desires is at the heart of incivility. This is the same “conscience of liberal thinking” that brought us Cabrini Green type public housing and welfare which encourage the break up of the African American family. How about we give “virtue” a try?