Poll: The greatest virtue

[Puzzles]

I'm definately for truth. I almost never lie, and I find liars disgusting. This is quite ironic, as I have a friend who is a compulsive liar. Luckily I'm quite good at detecting sincerety, so I know when he is telling the truth.

I believe that many injustices and problems in the world are the result of deception, lies and information omittance. Propaganda and politics, business and relationships; it all gets so messed up because people feel a need to lie to get their own way, to get people to believe their opinion is the right one. I've found that being truthful always gets me what I deserve, I'll own up to something bad I've done and normally people can see it from my point of view. People I know get so caught up in their own webs of lies that you just suddenly realise you don't know where the bullshit ends.

I like to analyse my friends, and I know them as well as they know themselves. It is amazing how much people lie if you just ask for a different point of view from someone else. Everyone embellishes and omits to some degree, but I try and keep it to a minimum. This won't get me far in life however, as I know a lot of interviews and interactions rely almost solely on a persons ability to bullshit their way through a situation.

 

[Asickorphan]

Reason was my vote, but what is our reason to be here?... "in the universe i mean"

 

[Kasawd]

I voted Reason but the most important virtue to me is Integrity.

 

[the1ultimate]

Compassion. It implies at least a degree of selflessness and concern for everything that isn't effectively encompassed in reason.

Cold emotionless reason, as level-headed as it is, doesn't exactly say "virtuous" to me.

There are virtues that I would put before Compassion, but none in the limited options here.

 

[KarumaK]

Sin.

For he who does not sin, is not human.

 

[Captain Blackout]

Where is sacrifice?

I ran out of room. I don't know how to get more than 8 options to work

 

[Captain Blackout]

You forgot 'productivity', 'asceticism', 'pleasure', and 'preference utility.'

Read my last post. I didn't "forget" anything. And pleasure will never be the greatest virtue for most people.

 

[Seanchaidh]

You forgot 'productivity', 'asceticism', 'pleasure', and 'preference utility.'

Read my last post. I didn't "forget" anything. And pleasure will never be the greatest virtue for most people.

You assume much.

 

[Kurokami]

Reason

 

[Captain Blackout]

You forgot 'productivity', 'asceticism', 'pleasure', and 'preference utility.'

Read my last post. I didn't "forget" anything. And pleasure will never be the greatest virtue for most people.

You assume much.

Really? You see a lot of call for pleasure as a virtue in this thread? No, just you? That say anything to you? I doubt it, but you could get lucky and learn something here.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

Reason, for it encompasses all the other virtues.

 

[Proteus214]

If compassion didn't exist, society wouldn't exist.
If anything, I think that compassion is what keeps things together and the lack thereof is what makes everything fall apart.

 

[Skeleon]

Reason, because it leads to truth, compassion and humility, as well as courage where it's due.

 

[JemJar]

Eclecticism.

I hadn't thought of that as a virtue, but I like it. I assume you mean the practice of keeping one's perspective broad and taking the best of what you see for your own use.

>.>

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I was making a cheap song reference, but yeah, what you said.

 

[Axeli]

Truth, truth, truth... Must be the cruelest virtue, but for some reason it's the only one I never really question is worth striving for.

I suppose I feel that accepting truth even when it pains you the most or forces you to rebuild your whole worldview is an act of maturity. It apparently takes some balls seeing how many people are unable to do that.

 

[Seanchaidh]

You forgot 'productivity', 'asceticism', 'pleasure', and 'preference utility.'

Read my last post. I didn't "forget" anything. And pleasure will never be the greatest virtue for most people.

You assume much.

Really? You see a lot of call for pleasure as a virtue in this thread? No, just you? That say anything to you? I doubt it, but you could get lucky and learn something here.

This thread is hardly a random sample of all past and future historical ideas about virtue.

 

[eatenbyagrue]

Reason, because reason keeps hubris (pride) in check. Without reason, how different would we be from animals?

Without reason, there is no truth, or faith. We value courage because it is the courageous who can suspend their reason for a moment and do things that those of us cannot.