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.
Tag: Vice
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.
❦ Which Austen Mother, Aunt or Spinster Are You? A Playful Virtue Quiz
This content humorously explores the female archetypes in Jane Austen's works, comparing them to modern-day women. Through a quiz, readers reflect on their own characteristics, recognizing strengths and weaknesses. Ultimately, it emphasizes growth, self-awareness, and the role of virtue in shaping one's identity, inspired by Austen's insights.
❦ Everyone Is Wrong About Porn; Here’s What Nobody Is Saying
Modern discourse about sexuality has become a tug-of-war of accusation. Mention pornography, chastity, modesty, or moral responsibility, and instantly the two sexes retreat into battle formation. Women insist pornography is a male failure, and men respond with grievances of female hypocrisy, nagging or both. But beneath all the fighting, something ancient, important, and fragile is breaking. This is not a debate about porn. Not really. This is a revelation of the interior collapse of the feminine soul in this modern age; and the masculine soul as well (but I speak to women, not men). To mend what is unraveling, we must speak plainly, gently, and without fear.
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