Virtue is the attribute that brings admiration but cannot elicit envious resentment or jealousy.

COMMENT: “Success”, “performance”, the so-called “excellence” and other goals in modern culture harm others, & belittles them -but courage, temperance, wisdom, & generosity don’t. If you follow this logic, you should never (Lebanese grandmother-style) push people to “succeed”, since it will put a shadow on others, and harm the collective (or themselves in the event of failure), rather nudge them to produce acts of courage for the sake of the general good, such as, say, standing up against fraudsters-hiding-in-groups, such as economists, banksters, and econ journalists. (Note to dispel an ancient confusion: There is no conflict between courage for the sake of the collective and the great virtue of prudence, since prudence is the courage of the general).

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