To: TobagoJack who wrote (79275 ) 9/8/2011 11:50:40 AM From: Maurice Winn 6 Recommendations Read Replies (2) | Respond to TJ, 1421 England did not involve VVV to any great extent that I'm aware of. So I asked Google which came up with luminarium.org There is not much evidence of VVV there. On the contrary, it looks like the normal barbarian squabbling for power that China suffered for so long in a centuries-long accident which incidentally coincided with The Little Ice Age which one should remain mindful of as 2020 approaches. England in 400 BC wasn't particularly virtuous either. What of it? vvv in truth is just niceties wrapping around evil genocidal instinct, nothing more. > TJ, your racist Anglophobia is showing. Mao's and followers' evil genocidal instincts resulted in a much higher tally of corpses just in one country, and in living memory, than did the civilizing influence of the creators of the wealth of places such as Hong Kong. en.wikipedia.org and excerpt, for example. I haven't read through all that Googlese, so let me know if you find some genocidal techniques there. In the Nicomachean Ethics , Aristotle defined a virtue as a balance point between a deficiency and an excess of a trait. [1] The point of greatest virtue lies not in the exact middle, but at a golden mean sometimes closer to one extreme than the other. For example, courage is the mean between cowardice and foolhardiness, confidence the mean between self-deprecation and vanity, and generosity the mean between miserliness and extravagance. It requires common-sense smarts, not necessarily extreme intelligence , to find this golden mean. In Aristotle's sense, it is excellence at being human, a skill which helps a person survive, thrive, form meaningful relationships and find happiness . Learning virtue is usually difficult at first, but becomes easier with practice over time until it becomes a habit . >
