What Virtue Means To Me

To me virtue means to be loyal to something that is important to you. In order to be virtuous, you must be willing to be truthful with others who care about you or the cause your group is working toward. The combination of loyalty and truthfulness (and probably some other important values like being a generally good person) make up virtue. Virtue is both an act and a state of being. You must first complete a set of virtuous acts before becoming a virtuous person. I have most often heard virtue related to relationships, whether it is a friendship, partnership, or other relationship. In all these relationships, you must be loyal and truthful with the other person or people no matter how tempting lying or dishonor may be. This would also involve being morally strong. You must have strength to tell the truth and remain loyal even if you previously acted in an unpleasant manner.
Duty is like a responsibility.
Here in the United States we have the Bill of rights, which are the rights our founding fathers believed every citizen of this country should have in relation to the government. I think that here in the US we look at rights differently because we have learned about the Bill of Rights since we were very young, spanning many generations. We take many things for granted, including our rights, and consider things that are not rights to be rights, such as driving a car or having a job. These are examples of rights people must earn and therefore they must have the proper skills to accomplish them. Other rights are unalienable rights that everyone deserves, such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I believe the government regulated rights are more frequently realized and utilized and these rights contain similarities to the rights every human should have; however, people can earn their own rights through their character and their