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Our culture often praises scrupulosity. We admire people who care deeply about right and wrong, who refuse to be careless with others. Scruples, in that sense, are a gift. But there is a point where fastidiousness turns on itself: conscience loses proportion, moral attentiveness turns inward and becomes relentless, the burden of responsibility swells until it crowds out trust.

Long before anyone had clinical language for this, monks were already warning about it.