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Artist: Nine Inch Nails Song: The Only Time [Embed For Use By Upgraded+]  "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  Prompt: Make a list of the top five most important virtues and why.I looked up the definition of virtue because I thought it was the same thing as values.  I found that virtue is moral excellence, so I'm already off on a bad start with this prompt. Because my idea of a moral compass is a lot different than a lot of people's. I don't care what anyone is preaching. I don't care about shallow, surface-level proclamations of moral superiority. Full stop. It's simple: How do you treat other people? How do you treat people when they can do nothing for you? How do you treat people who don't have the same belief system as you - people who have different religions and different cultures? How do you treat people when no one is watching? How do you treat someone when, in plain view of others who are on your side, that person is in the minority (be it because of their beliefs, their skin color, their sexuality, their opinion on a big decision at work, their sports team preference, etc.)? What do you do for the world? Do you go out of your way to help others? When there is an option to help someone and another option to walk away and either option requires little effort, which do you choose? Do you choose to put yourself above the greater good? Do you refuse to inconvenience yourself for the benefit of any person who isn't you? What are you doing to put others before yourself? Would you suffer, even mildly, for the benefit of others? Would you sacrifice a single thing, at all? Things I don't want to hear ever again in life:  How someone's religion makes them morally superior to others, especially when in day-to-day life and through personal interactions, they don't follow any of the tenets of their own religion. (Negative bonus points if they don't even know the tenets of their religion). People explaining how, despite the fact that they have ZERO education in the field, they happen to be smarter than experts because they googled stuff or saw an infographic on social media. (And P.S. the experts are for some reason trying to hurt you. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ No explanation there, it's just what we've decided).The amount of times I've been spoken to about moral goodness by someone and then witnessed them, either as a firsthand participant or from a distance, absolutely just ripping into someone with real hatred in their heart is astounding. And while I'm on the topic, people do watch you from a distance. People watch the way that you interact with other people. When you tell them, "Bless be to all" and then turn around with, "Except [insert entire group of people here]," you have lost all credibility as someone who is morally sound. Example: The most important thing we can do is be there for each other during this difficult time with an open heart and a ready smile.  ...10 minutes later... If you don't want to catch the CHINA VIRUS then you can stay at home forever hahah. Oh, you'll lose your job? Oh well, your decision!  proceeds to go to the grocery store without a mask and cough on all of the produce Shrug your moral superiority complex immediately if you ever do anything even remotely similar to the above OR if you encourage anything similar to the above by promoting people who say things like this. What really gets me about it isn't even the difference in views. I can accept that people are going to have different opinions than me. What I can't accept is the complete and utter lack of empathy for human life. I've heard the craziest shit. "The virus isn't even that bad! Yes, I do understand that 140,000+ people have died in our country in 5 months. It's mostly old people anyway." "Oh, you have an underlying condition? Too bad for you, I guess. No, I won't do anything that could protect you in anyway. P.S. I won't be getting a vaccine whenever that comes out." Honestly, never again in life should you say something feigning any type of moral virtue. I don't need someone to tell me that they're fair, honest, kind, generous, forgiving, responsible, tolerant, respectful, and accepting. I need them to show these virtues. Another option is to not be virtuous. That's a thing too. But it seems difficult to find people who will be like, "Nope, I'm just a pretty bad person. Other people? Nope, hate them all. Actually want them dead." So, what are my 5 top five most important virtues? 1. Whatever 2. Makes 3. People 4. Behave 5. Virtuously My moral standing is lying down. |
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