How much does virtue cost?
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In what ways can laziness be a virtue?
There is a difference being just physically lazy and being totally lazy. Physical laziness is stay put in place and there is no will to move around. You try to get anything and everything at your place. B-)Physical laziness may prompt you to find more easier way(s) of things than the present way. Laziness makes you realise what is worth effort and what is not :-PWhile lazing around, you start to think about pros and cons of doing or not doing things.About virtue, you will perceive things as you see them. You see it as a virtue, you will your laziness doing constructive work for you. I recall many little incidences from work where people used to work very hard to do things and my laziness proved to ease their work. I respect the hard work people do and it is their way of doing it but when I’m allotted to do the work I do it my lazy way.Thanks
Is being thrifty a virtue?
Yes, being thrifty is a virtue; being miserly with your money is not.I equate thrift with frugality, and it has nothing to do with depriving yourself with anything material or tangible. What it does mean is settling for the products or merchandise of the highest quality at the price you can afford.Saving is essential to being thrifty, but since individuals come from varying ranges of income, there are no fixed “rules” or formulae regarding the amount of money one needs to save every month, or within a given year.But I guess nearly all of us will agree on a few tenets of finance, such as —living way below your means.setting limits on your exposure to advertising, so as not to be tempted by slick ads.not buying groceries on an empty stomach.conserving water and electricity.comparison shopping.
What does patience is a virtue mean?
In Christianity, there are seven virtues. (I think these balance the seven deadly sins.) One of them is patience. Kids have a very hard time with being patient. So do some adults. Mothers and others would remind those who were having a hard time being patient that patience is one of the seven Christian virtues. This was supposed to remind the impatient person that they should be patient not just because someone said they should, but because God would reward them for it. I don't know if that made anyone more patient. But that is what the phrase means.
How is Justice the eighth virtue?
Traditionally, seven is a "magic" number for western cultures. 7 seas 7 heavenly bodies 7 wonders of the world In that tradition, Catholic dogma recognized 7 heavenly virtues: Chastity, Temperance, Charity, Diligence, Patience, Kindness, Humility (it also recognized 7 deadly sins (or vices), just to be fair), The original virtues and vices were actually derived from a poem, "Contest of the Soul," by Aurelius Clemens Prudentius in the 5th century. Anyway, 7 was long recognized as the correct number of virtues when someone noticed that "Justice" was missing, but surely a virtue. So, basically, Justice is the 8th virtue because someone thought it important, and the 1st 7 were already taken. It's a bit like "Kong - the 8th wonder of the world." And just to keep the whole virtue/vice thing balanced, Corruption is considered the 8th vice.
What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Patriotism. The desire to love,respect and serve a certain bunch of humanity as a first priority ,even sometimes on the expense of other bunches of humanity is simply sick! But we are dumb enough to accept this as a universal fact and thwart any other mode of thinking as being dreamy and impractical.The only practical and sane mode of thought for humans is:devide(each other) and conquor(each other)!
Is wealth any indicator of human virtue?
You already have the answer from Jordan Soreff. A person doesn’t have to possess human virtue in order to amass obscene amounts of money. There are many ways to do it:support the advertising industry in its relentless brain-washing of the public to get us to buy stuff we don’t need, and in some cases don’t really want;donate huge sums of money to politicians who also want to be wealthy, who then become beholden to those who literally got them into office;influence the creation of laws that allow them to hide their money and engage in the immoral practice of paying no taxes;participate in money schemes to attract home buyers with no concern for the inevitable bubble that ensues;ignore the enormous harm to the earth, thus to human life, and influence those in power to abolish agencies that are trying to devise means to restore the ecological balance.The point is that the only so-called virtues required are greed, lust for power and wealth, and blatant lack of concern for people or for the environment to get wealthy, coupled with enormous ego and arrogance.The Restoration Of Planet Earth’s Ecosystem | Laitman.com