Examining the Relations Between Love and Virtue -- The Underrated Strength No One Speaks About

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In a world based on relationships of many kinds, what misses in such a world is love. However, the reason why there isn't enough love is because to love people, that requires strength like no other. A strength that is not measured in GDP or in military prowess. It is found in the ability to overcome anger and the temptation of hatred, and show love towards people.

It is hard to love in a world where hatred and greed are easier to come by. Yet, the power of love has the power to rectify people from their darkness, redeem them from it, and change them for the better.

A loving person is a virtuous individual. The relations between love and virtue are necessary. You cannot be of virtue without considering the power of love, and the power of love naturally makes you a better person. Love allows you to calm the other side, make him or her feel psychologically safe, and prevent them from growing dark. Love is what is missing in our world, more than any other component.

Love breeds safety and harmony, love breeds peace. If we want peace in the world, we must show love. How many of you are capable of showing love to a complete stranger? Very few. Even I can't, admittedly.

The reason why is because love leads to vulnerability, and vulnerability can be exploited. As long as we don't trust each other, we won't be able to love. A loving person is a person who wants the best for you; a man or woman who wants your suffering to be reduced, and that a genuine smile will rise up in your face.

Thus, what is missing in our world is not only love but trust. The more we trust each other the safer we can feel.

Had humanity possessed more virtue, the world will be a more stable place to live in. All these meaningless wars, conflicts and protests just take away lives, divide humanity and make the world a harder place to live in. Instead, the strength of firearms we need the strength of our hearts, to reach out to each other, and show love. Not bullets, not explosives, but genuine displays of care and support. That way, the world will be a better place to live in.

The ability to trust requires the same underrated strength that loves demands. The strength that comes from within, not from tanks or war airplanes or the economy. I do not fear vulnerability. I am safe because all I want to do is to rectify the world, nothing more.

If we want to rectify the world, we need to give up on what makes us dark. Darkness is the highest vice that leads to all other vices of hatred, vengeance, the desire for destruction and for malice. The path to virtue, and by proxy, world rectification, requires us to give up on certain elements of ourselves, such as anger, which leads to violence, such as resentment, which leads to hatred. The world can be a better place to live in if we understand that our vices are the problems, and that the greatest virtue necessary to heal this world is the ability to love.

How vice creates problems? It leads to disproportional hatred, disproportional anger and disproportional resentment. Had we understood that the worlds' problems stem from vice, we would alter education in a way that is not about being submissive workers but good people.

Education should be there to make us better people. The next generations of this world will inherit a broken world, where its leaders are driven by survival rather than servitude. Public servants are there to serve the public, but in reality, they serve themselves above all. Serving oneself above all is how the world gets corrupted, and therefore is a vice.

People, with all their hearts, should use their strength to give more to others than themselves. That way, the world would be a better place to live in. To do something positive with all your heart is an example of doing something with love. And love is what is missing in our world.

Had we had more love for each other, had we had this strength within us, to show love even to the most distant of strangers, this world would be a better place to live in.

But, as long as we fear the vulnerability that stems from this strength, we will just keep leading this world to failure.

The relations between love and virtue should be clear. Love is this inner strength that fosters the virtues of courage, cooperation, harmony, goodwill, trust and most importantly -- peace of mind.

Love is more than just an emotion, it is a state of mind, done consciously. Love should be a way of life, a way to foster virtue in a world that keeps on failing. To depend on temporary emotion, when it comes to love, will not make love effective.

Love is a conscious choice we make. We consciously choose to express our hearts to someone. Had we made love a choice on a global scale, the world would've been a better place to live in.

Love requires strength like no other because some people are difficult to love. It is a strength no military commander or a business executive may necessarily possess. Some people are just too difficult to love, and I am one of them.

I am a rebel, a force of contra against this world. Every day I am trying to rectify my darkness, but I am still dark. It is hard for me to love naturally as it is hard for many to love naturally. My initial reaction to such a broken world is to be solitary. There is security in solitude, and I feel safer in solitude than company which I find empty and vain.

Yet, I understand that to rectify this world we need to show love for each other. And as such the more I work on Philosocom the better I feel. With all my heart I give you an entire free website to read because that allows my heart to recover from the darkness which I am inclined to.

Love and purity are what amiss in the world. Had nations loved each other, instead of succumbing to racism and petty rivalry, the world will be a better place to be in.

I really want this world to be a better place to live in. That is the promise I made to my grandmother when I was a child: to rectify the world.

Yet, I understand that I cannot rectify it completely. All I can do, my fair share, is to philosophize. Had leaders spoke of love and harmony instead of common alliances and deals, this world would've been a better place to live in.

Had neighbours loved each other, so many neighbourly disputes wouldn't exist. It's not money or justice that is amiss in our world, as much as love. Not romantic love, but love as a mindset, as a mentality, as a way of life.

If we want a better world, we need to love each other. We need not find excuses as to why not love each other, but instead, search for why we need to love each other.

Humanity has failed fostering this unique strength, and therefore is doomed. I, for one, refuse to be like the rest of humanity. I choose a peaceful way of life, I choose world rectification, I choose love over war and conflict.

I know I am one being and I am too a part of this world. I have forsaken it so I will continue to be good, and maintain my good nature in a world of alienation, spite and corruption. I watch this world and I feel bad for it. I feel pity. Pity that all these wars have to go. Pity that the human heart has been forsaken in the name of capital. Pity that people die because of hate and spite and conflict.

All I can do is to philosophize in solitude about a better world, and hope to make a lasting impact. It is better, I think, than to do nothing.

I refuse partaking in this world beyond my online contributions. In solitude, I will keep honing my strength, this special strength I've been talking about in this article, so my heart won't grow dark anymore.