Virtue is becoming increasingly difficult to define (and, apparently, write about because this entry has been listed as a draft for over a month now). Virtue is especially difficult to define in these days of fast food, fast women, seemingly lax morals, and whatever else we instinctively (or by way of decades and centuries of conditioning) decree as wrong but is in reality up to the individual to define. We've become slaves to the freedoms and privileges we've given ourselves. I'm not saying freedom is a bad thing, I'm saying irresponsibility is. It's actually getting harder to be a good person. There seems to be some sort of pressure that forces us or guilts us into doing things for others. We don't want to seem like assholes by denying help and services to others but sometimes you have to say "Me." Does this make you a bad person?
No
There is nothing wrong with thinking of yourself and wanting to do things for yourself. The problem comes with excess: thinking of yourself too much is a bad thing. A very bad thing. That's really all there is to it. You can be a good person for thinking of others but you descend into doormat when all you do is think of others and not look out for yourself. That's really all that can be said to it which feels like something of an anti-climax given that the post on Vice was more detailed but this can be really summed up in a nutshell: think of others but don't become a doormat; do things for yourself, too.
Hmm.
You'll do what you want but stay on the path that'll offer a genuine wholesome reward.
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