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What is the greatest human virtue? Is is faith? Is it courage?
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What is the greatest human virtue? Is is faith? Is it courage? Is it hope? Is it wisdom? Or... maybe something else? What is your opinion?
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Greatest as in its most useful from a biological perspective? I would argue that it is persistence.
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Definitely a good choice. Other alternative is being an intelligent, but without both it's a very dead end.
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>>1330901
Never giving up or quitting.
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One might claim that intelligence itself is naught but a resultant of the persistence carried by our genes. Is this not true?
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It's prudence. Haven't you read Aristotle? Without prudence you wouldn't have any other virtue.
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That some people would do anything to survive and thrive.

It's not morally admirable. However from a practical, realist perspective it is a powerful trait.
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