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The Virtue Continuum
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Honor and Strength needs to be on there, as well as Sacrifice and Fidelity.
I would disagree with idolatry being a "excess", its necessary to have role-models and symbols to project human, natural and divine characteristics upon - this is what humanity has done since time immemorial because of its motivational and symbolic purposes.
i have to say i really disagree with the setup here, it's not so much of having too much of a good thing as it is having one trait without another.
For example extreme courage without discernment is foolhardiness, but if you have both then you are courageous when you need to be, but know when to step back too
Goal-oriented, consistency, industriousness and reliability should go hand in hand within Diligence, and we should aim for passion and excellence, i.e nobility. The licentiousness or hedonism should be mostly synonymous with gluttony, as should be addiction, when we refuse to smack goblets when the occasion demands & necessity arises i.e fraternity, modesty/humility & respect (not all of temperance), it should be impartial judgment as the ideal middle-ground/moderation (less so discernment, judgmentalism is really self-righteous, petty, grandiose or vain), pride is really vanity, pettiness, self-interest, lifestylism, victimhood and betrayal, basically extremely proud of the unreal, unimportant, unattractive and unfair (also part of gluttony/licentiousness), jealousy should be synonymous with anti-class (classist, a kind of barbarous), competitive, egalitarian/equalitarian, exploitative, unfair and petty, the ideal is hierarchy, love, compassion and purity, lust is a passionate feeling, that continuum/spectrum is really lechery/debauchery, carnal lust & celibacy as extremes vs discretion, modesty & chastity as the ideal, more so discretion, greed is what materialism is mostly, and should be synonymous with globalism, banking elitism, international finance or international capitalism, and the main current form of favoritism, not merely covetous, and the ideal should be individualism and collectivism harmoniously reconciled, vocational and jurisdictional (to each his own, reconciling class interest), sage-like, scholarly, spontaneity and prosperity (which is also anti-jealousy), highly attractive, basically peaceful, a important part of hierarchy, fairness, openness, magnanimous, compassion and frugality, and of course sacrifice. Vanity, self-righteous and jealousy all are the sources of privation or arrested development.