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.
When you have a duty, you have something that you must complete whether you want to or not. I feel as though duties and rights go hand in hand as you must complete your duties in order to have the rights you desire or deserve. An example of duty would be your duty to honor our country and enjoy the rights we have here that people of other countries may not enjoy. When it comes to duty being something that is expressed or something that is demanded of us, I usually think of it as being demanded, but people can express duty through every day activities such as going to work. You have a duty to go to work and you are rewarded with material objects, but I feel as though this form of duty is not as rewarding because you don’t always receive personal gratification from what you have done and you do not receive and everlasting reward for your duty.
I would define rights as something you must have to live a good life or something you earn from completing certain tasks.
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
actions.