>Sometimes I wonder if I should give my children the advice "Be good and moral and care about other people" or "Do everything you can to be rich and powerful so

>Sometimes I wonder if I should give my children the advice "Be good and moral and care about other people" or "Do everything you can to be rich and powerful so you can make yourself as immune to adversity as possible." Give them the former advice, and also tell them to make themselves as immune to adversity as possible because the world contains bad people. Goodness doesn't stop being good because badness exists, nor does the world become better by a refusal to confront and eliminate bad things.