Episode 77: Contextual Virtue

Rendezvous with Jamie McGlue

While we can and must agree on certain standards for human behaviour, I feel it is often overlooked how one’s context affects the question of virtue and moral excellence. If you are born into the mafia but do your best to err on the side of kindness within your world, then you seem to be showing greater moral effort than one who is born into a family who value and practise humanitarian, socially conscious existence – if that person fails to ever grow and aspire to be better for the sake of uplifting the world. Such a dynamic reveals itself to us everywhere we look, and by keeping it in mind we may just open the door to a greater empathy, peacefulness, pragmatism and spiritual unity. No one is perfect, so let us not rest on our laurels judging those born in darker times and places, but do our best to be deemed worthy of even those enlightened future humans whose standards we can hope will be far loftier than our own, as life evolves ever higher toward awareness and harmony.