Virtue and Vice

[b] Give one example of how our culture has taken a vice and turned it into a virtue and give one example of how our culture has taken a virtue and turned it into a vice.

Our culture has made premaritual sex out to be a fine thing to do and that everyone should be doing it. At the same time, our culture has taken chastity and made it out to be unimportant and secondary.


RK P1

our culture has taken the virtue of sex and turned it into a vice through pornography by turning women into objects instead of people. on the other hand our culture turned the vice of premarital sex into something that is acceptable by our culture and considered okay.

MB period 1

Today in our culture, the virtue of sex has been turned into a vice through pornography. Although, pre marital sex is now OK and accepted throughout the community.

AT P1

Our culture has taken sex and turned it into something aloud to do outside of marriage. Pornography has also hurt our world by designating people. Our culture has taken Chasity and made it seem "uncool".

AY P2

An example is loyalty. Our culture has taught us that its okay if our marriage or relationship doesn't work out we can go to someone else. But it isn't okay, that we should be loyal to one and only one person.

BC P4

an example would be sex and how it has become ok to do outside of marriage you should save sex for marriage.

KS period 2

our culture has taken the virture of chastity and made it into something wrong and unacceptable, the vice is lust/ premarital sex, they say it's alright when it really should be saved for the one person your going to marry.

OW p4

The virue that our culture has made into a vice is chastity where as lust has become an icon. The culture of today has made sex seem okay at anytime even though it should be saved for love.

Our culture had taken lust and glorified it, made it seem the more the better. At the same time they took Chastity and Modesty and classified them as weird, and sent out the message that its not cool to be chaste and the more skin you show the more attractive you are.


HO period 4

Our cultue has taken the vice of premarital sex and turned it into a virtue by saying everyone should be doing it. They have also taken the virtue of modesty- chastity and turned it into a vice by saying it is the wrong thing to do.

MF P:1

A virtue that has been made a vice is patience. No one can wait for something to happen, they all need it to happen right away in order for them to want it. A vice that has been made a virtue is lust because everyone in today's world surrounds their life with sex. They see it in movies, on tv, in magazines, and other places.
LB Period 8

Our society has taken the vice of premarital sex and turned it into a virtue by encouraging people that it is okay to have sex before marriage. They have also taken the virtue of modesty and turned it into a vice by saying that you should save yourself for that one person.


cd, p7

Our culture has taken sex and drugs and made them things that people should do. Premartial sex is a fine thing today in todays society and so is getting drunk and acting like a fool on the weekends.
G.S 8th period

Our society has taken the vice of Lust and pretty much told us it was cool to lust after something or someone when it is not. Our get it when you want culture has twisted the virtue of temperence into an archaic belief that just doesn't work in our "modern" society.

WM P4