Children are often shaped less by harm than by absence; the absence of moral authority and virtue in the adults who raise them. Where prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice are weak, children inherit disorder by proximity. Take the virtue test and see where you need to grow.
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WHEN BELIEF IS DEMANDED BEFORE PROOF, JUSTICE IS ALREADY DEAD
Due process restrains the state, not the conscience of the citizen. Free speech exists to protect the right to question, to reason, and to dissent without coercion. When a society demands belief before proof and silence instead of inquiry, it abandons the moral and legal foundations of freedom.
The First Anti-Capitalists
History did not begin with a workers’ uprising against greedy factory owners. It began with aristocrats furious that ordinary men could finally earn more than a peasant’s wage. The first class warriors were not laborers — they were lords. When capitalism started lifting the poor, the privileged revolted, not to protect the weak, but to preserve their own place at the top. The great scandal of capitalism was not poverty; it was the escape from poverty.
What Happens When Vice Becomes Normal and Virtue Becomes Strange
When virtue becomes optional, disorder quietly takes the throne. Our age mocks modesty, scorches chastity, and calls vice enlightenment—never seeing the collapse this creates. Civilization cannot stand without the moral architecture our ancestors understood. The way forward is the way back: toward virtue, order, and truth.
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