There are small examples almost daily.
We just don't usually see them unless we're the ones carrying them out or are on the receiving end (as I write this, I just heard about a five-second slam on the car horn from outside my apartment).
Some days, though, the greater good of humanity, is on grand display - and it really is something to which we could all take notice.
Friday was one of those, as the whole city of San Francisco made a boy's wish come true.
Miles, a 5-year-old leukemia survivor, became "BatKid," saving the San Francisco Giants' mascot Lou Seal and helping apprehend The Riddler, and Penguin. The Department of Justice even sent out a press release, probably the greatest one I've ever read, about the arrests.
The boy's mom said he likes to be a superhero and is one. She couldn't be more right - and all of those people who cheered for him made him know he was one.
They made him feel special.
"Our superhero is in remission. And today, I think we gave him a little bit of his childhood back," Patricia Wilson of the Make-A-Wish Greater Bay Area Foundation said, just before Miles was given the key to the city by the mayor.
The Nebraska football program did it for Jack Hoffman, a brain cancer survivor who suited up in uniform and scored a touchdown in their spring game last year.
This is the joy we can reap when we act at our finest.
Too often, we're barraged with lawmakers squabbling or criminals polluting the news.
And truly, we really don't do nice things for each other enough. Whether it seems awkward or we're just too busy, most of us are guilty of failing to carry out kindness. I try when I can but I don't do it enough either.
For ages, philosophers have argued over whether humans are innately selfish or good.
San Francisco, or "Gotham City" as it was also known Friday, offered a compelling case for the virtuous.
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