Notes - virtue & vice motor / moral dilemma on art %

         Mid-morning. Brennan is down for his nap and you both have had breakfast. When you awoke the Virtues popped into mind, you were remembering that Plato said they were all encompassing, that it is not reasonable to say that one virtue is more important than another.

         This is (for me) simplifying the human condition via heartansoulanmind. Moral aspects are important as Freud shows, both cultural and individual, but it seems to me it is the cultural virtues (and balancing vices) that are woven in almost unnoticed because the parents and/or adult (media reinforced) guides that set the early patterns followed quickly by one’s friends and fellow peers. Guilt appears to come from not keeping one’s own standards (virtues). I realize I am generalizing but this line of thought is (in my mind) setting up basic parameters of a psychological motor mentally directed to/at/for the definition of one’s self-identity. This is a part of the gear works.

         Not exactly, boy, but let’s continue on in this direction so you can see where it leads. You need a reminder of the virtues and sins as you are currently spending brain time trying to remember each by definition. Again, the virtues:

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A virtue is a positive trait or quality deemed to be morally good and thus is valued as a foundation of principle and good moral being. Personal virtues are characteristics valued as promoting collective and individual greatness. The opposite of virtue is vice. (Wikipedia)

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 and vices:

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Vice is a practice or a behavior or habit considered immoral, depraved, or degrading in the associated society.. . . The modern English term that best captures its original meaning is the word vicious, which means "full of vice". In this sense, the word vice comes from the Latin word vitium, meaning "failing or defect". Vice is the opposite of virtue. (edited from Wikipedia)

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are historically coming from culture. Substitutions can be invented and then open for consideration, as you don’t want to forget to include the humanity of Diplomat’s miniscule AC. – Amorella

         I did forget. I wanted to revert to the medieval list of seven virtues and seven ‘countered’ sins – too much complication and they certainly wouldn’t necessarily have meaning for a once-upon-a-time-a-floating-seed being with higher consciousness.

         Post and consider your next thought carefully. - Amorella

         After supper, which was good going down, but alas, the meat got jammed in your lap band on the upper stomach and you lost a perfectly good six oz. steak, potatoes, and veggies created by son-in-law. You went up to bed to relax and Paul came in with the gun you gave him from your Dad’s collection last week.

         One of the prettiest of Dad’s guns is a German Drilling double-barreled gauge (?) with a 8mm rifle barrel below and a scope up above; I assume it was a civilian sports gun. Along the barrel is printed “Krupp Laufstahd”, Krupp steel barrel, I imagine. At the barrel’s near trigger edge is printed “Nitro” and “578mm”/”537 SUHL”. On the barrel bottom is “13GR”. The gun has decorated-with-animal figures engraved in the silver inlay plates. Below is a sample of similar designed Drilling I found online:

         I do not enjoy shooting guns (target and clay pigeon) like I did in my youth. I was never a hunter but I respect those who love such weaponry for sport, especially balanced weapons; works of art and design and those also built practically for uncommon accuracy.

         This above material on weaponry has nothing to do with our discussion. – Amorella

         I know, but when Paul showed me the ‘numbers’ he found on the gun (ones that I did not already know were there) I found/find it interesting. I love the engineering and design of things. While at Indian Hill we had some discussions on art in the teachers' lounge and I remember a heated discussion about the efficiency in the design of a nuclear weapon. I said I may love the design (schematic diagram) if I saw one but I deplore the destructive use of the actual weapon.

       You have a moral dilemma here, do you not? – Amorella

       Yes.

       Why don’t we use this later as an example of how the heartansoulanmind work to balance such a problem with a humanely reasonable wise decision? – Amorella %

         I’ll never remember this. I think it is impossible to make a humane moral decision on this specific subject matter: I think the original question that started the question is this: Can the design, the schematic diagram, of a nuclear weapon be considered a work of art?

         Mark it with a % sign. Time for bed. Post. - Amorella