[defen]

Here's a contemporary quote from Oscar Wilde that hits at the same issue, in a way that's easier for modern readers to digest:

"I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts."

[eli_gottlieb]

So Oscar Wilde never met a genuinely kind and decent person?