The first and most important lesson of the past few years is obviously the fact that competence is a moral issue, rather than simply a practical one. It is the mechanism that allows you to act in the world, to impose yourself on it. There can therefore be no meaningful morality without competence. Without it, we cannot secure the good. We can only wish for it. And that wish will be forlorn, deprived as it is of the measures by which it could be asserted.