Not G. Ivingname said:
TiloXofXTanto said:
Alright, I have come back to have THY REVENGE!
Is virtue something we are taught or are born with?
1. Psssst, Thy=your. I don't need the revenge, you do. (sorry, inner grammar nazi made me do it)
2. Virtues are rather complicated. One's ability to attain them is always subject to the environment, but it's not always easy to identify what is and isn't affecting one's ability to maintain their virtues.
This question is best answered by providing contradictory examples for both points.
Last cycle, I participated in a grand experiment of strangeness. I would be born allow myself to develop, and then take a record of all positive and negative traits that I have at ages 13, 18, and 30. I also made a fellow Wanderer of the Lifelands do the same. We got strange results.
George, the Wanderer I involved, almost always developed into the same person. His listed virtues always came out to: Honesty, Responsibility, Perseverance, Justice, and Gravity. His negative traits all came out: Prejudice(vs. Spain), Temper (as in, he has a short one, might also count as wrath, not sure), Laziness, and Greed.
However, I always came out different, even when I managed to be born into the EXACT SAME situation THREE times in a row.
The possibility of anyone developing a virtue over another is ultimately decided by so many variables that, without a super computer that can simulate the universe, we will never know the exact answer.
But I can tell you that all the complicated virtues require people to think long enough to form a moral code, which is what one learns from the society around him. So the short answer is: Average Virtues can go either way, but the big important ones need to be taught indirectly, so that one can form their own opinions and teach themselves.
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INB4 PHILOSOPHER/PSYCHOLOGIST TYPE PROVES ME WRONG WITH COHESIVE, WELL THOUGHT OUT ARGUMENT.