Let us ask, when one person is morally superior to another, is it better of us to like that better man more than we like the other? To help in thinking about that, I give you two examples from my own affective life. The first concerns a man who was once in charge of the editorial page of an important newspaper but who was forced to leave his position when he committed journalistic pla giarism. The other concerns a man who was once a leading figure in city gov ernment but was sent to jail after being charged with using his office to solicit