Virtue ethics\u2019 weaknesses are twofold.
\nAt one extreme, in Asia, the Confucian emphasis on family as the building block of community, society, and polity can lead \u2013 and has led \u2013 to corruption and favoritism in the form of nepotism and related vices.
\nAt another extreme, where the modern Western emphasis on individual liberty has undermined nuclear families, and where political power is a commodity that has to be purchased, there is altogether insignificant attention to virtue.
\nWhen people are left to their own devices, and are never encouraged \u2013 or compelled \u2013 to adopt ethical systems, they often choose vices over virtues.
\nLike the physical world, the moral world is not perfectly efficient. Loss of efficiency or gain of entropy \u2013 movement from order toward chaos \u2013 is built into the physical world. Every process is less than 100 percent efficient.
\nSimilarly, it is easier to acquire bad habits than good ones, and harder to break the bad ones than the good. In the short run, and from an individual perspective, vice seems more fun than virtue.
\nBut in the longer run, and from a societal perspective, a vicious society becomes dysfunctional and inimical to the well-being of its members, whereas a virtuous one remains functional and supportive of the well-being of its members.
\nSo Robin needs to think about what long-term virtues he is trying to protect through his short-term acts in desperate times.
\nAll persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
\n\u2013 Aristotle<\/p>\n
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