The test of a man’s character goes beyond how well he behaves in public, or even in private. If you want to know who someone is, then watch how he conducts himself when he has lost all of his bearings, when his moral compass is gone, when the entire paradigm within which he has been living his life has been shattered. What does he do then? Why does he choose “right” then? How does he determine “true north” then? It is not just that we “are what we do”; it is that “we do what we are.”
