can i make you LOVE me or can i make you SMOKEpot?

Question

which is more contagious, a VIRTUE or a VICE? good or bad?

Answer 1

It depends on the package, the bait...
I would love to say, hands down that I would take the "high road" and make a right good decision, but that might be dishonest.
Sometimes a bad choice is packaged in some yummy looking packaging. And I admit, I could easily fall for it.
So basically. To the first question, love or pot, I'd choose love, because that specifically is an easy thing for me. But then it gets complicated, general. Virtue or vice, good or bad. Too many possibilities are encased in those words. Each choice should be gone through individually.

Answer 2

In your metaphor, is love a virtue or a vice? What about smoking pot?

I don't know if you can quantify how contagious (or addictive) something is.
Virtues, Love (and other strong emotions), as well as vices may be both contagious and addictive - depending on the person, the situation, the time, the environment...

Answer 3

Neither is contagious, per se. How a person responds when he or she is "led" to virtue or vice depends, really, on the individual's pre-existing inclinations.

You can lead a horse to water -- or to love, or to a dime bag of pot. But whether the horse drinks -- or loves -- or smokes -- really tells you more about the individual horse's needs than about the nature of horses generally.

Answer 4

I would rather fall in love with you than smoke pot with you. However, I think if a person has a strong enough character than they could reject your attempts at enticement. I think that naturally people tend to be attracted to vices rather than virtue and often choose bad over good. It all goes back to what a person considers good or bad. What is bad in one person's eyes may be good in someone else's eyes.

Answer 5

It depends on the person. If a person has strong character and values, they won't be easily swayed to do something that goes against their morals. I do hope that good is more contagious, but again it depends on if the person isn't closed off and not interested in doing good.

Answer 6

I agree with someone else, who said that you can't make me do one thing or the other. For I believe that we are all free moral agents. However, it seems easier to entice humans to do what is vicious rather than virtuous. Aristotle writes that there are an infinite number of ways to go wrong, but only a few ways to go in the right direction. The holy Bible also indicates that man has this tendency. We are all inclined to do what is bad or vicious.

Answer 7

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4/11/07
What is EVIL and What is GOOD?
Evil is Evil
and
Good is Good
They can not be alike in any way shape or form. Opposits.
Devil=Evil
God=Good
Simple, Get It?!!!
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4/07/07
What Is Right ? And What Is Wrong ?
Right is Obeying The Creator God
Wrong is Obeying your will to do what the world does.
What is accepted and normal to this world. The Way of the World! Its practices.
(1Jo 2:15) Love not the world, neither the things
[that are] in the world. If any man love the world,
the love of the Father is not in him.
(Jam 4:4) You adulterers and adulteresses, know you
not that the friendship of the world is enimty
(enemy), with God? Whosoever therefore will be a
friend of the world is the enemy of God.
The World is the Way People Think and allow Things to be done.
It is Satan's way. Our True Enemy.
For if we allow his way to be our way there will be
no humans left on this earth.
And if we say we will not Do Satan's way but our Way
it is still Satan's way.
For That is what Adam did and look where we are today!
(Eph 6:12) For we wrestle not against flesh and
blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the darkness of
this world ( Satan and His Demons ), against
spiritual wickedness in high [places].
But God's ways is perfect and Safe.
For he that died for us has already defeated the enemy.
He is the Authroity. It is his way.
His way is the Light,
He is Jesus ( Yeshua ) the Lord
In Jesus'name Amen

Answer 8

neither.
the character of the individual matters most.
If you want to spread vice, what helps most is the delay in judgement and justice. A good lawyer and loads of money will do.
Virtue is much harder to come by. Just as pearls are harder to find than swine.

Answer 9

I think repeated negative experiences can get bound up with emotion, altering perception that provokes the substitution of virtue and its behavioural follow-thru for vice. With some biologically-based exceptions, I think people inherently seek “goodness” and virtuousness.

Without experiential knowledge, I want to fall in love with you, however individual experience coupled with corresponding, eventually solidified affect may alter my perception of whether, for example, I want your love, know how to love you the way you want to be loved, whether you can love me, whether I can accept your love. Depending on my individual path of experience, emotion, thru perception, I may positively rationalize and accept smoking pot for the love I actually covet...but, can’t, shouldn’t, or just won’t seek, attain, or maintain.

Obviously, just one possibility. I can think of other scenarios...

Answer 10

Badness is ALWAYS tempting! no matter what. but a virture over a vice is way more appealing and better for the soul. Some times being naughty is good for the heart but being nice is good for heart, mind and body.

and yes you could make me love you!!!

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