> But we are social animals and seeing everyone else around you indulging in pleasures while you 'take the high road' just won't work on a societal level. For

> But we are social animals and seeing everyone else around you indulging in pleasures while you 'take the high road' just won't work on a societal level. For sure. But it's just humans running the government too, with the same short sighted and social biases as the rest of us. Expecting them to overcome our shared human nature might be wishful thinking.