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runeks on July 7, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Excellence is a habit, but so is failure

> Virtue & vice are kind of an arbitrary way to device up those "grooves", and what constitutes virtue or vice varies by context/perspective.

Would you care to provide a few examples?

cbsmith on July 7, 2023 [–]

Sorry for the typeoh in the above.

Examples: compassion, loyalty, endurance/perseverance, social/independence, love/hate, trusting, cynicism/optimism, etc.

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