Cardopoly...

It seems like everywhere you go there is a company trying to get you to put their plastic keytag on your keychain or their cheap barcoded card in your wallet. Just about all the clothes stores, supermarkets, shoe stores, pharmacies, convenience stores, even my hair salon has it. I looked at my keychain the other day and was positively overwhelmed at the amount of shuffling I'd have to do to get my appropriate tag in the event that one of these merchants actually called me out on it. I propose that we let the merchant do the shuffling and that we disregard the way they look at us when we present them with the opportunity to handle our wares. I think if they want our business they ought to share the burden of our carrying for all these tags.
The wallet cards are another story. Why associate all of our information in an online account and assign it to a card for us to just lose the card and then ask our phone number to give us the discount. I'd like it if our license would work the same way. Just give your address and your license info will pull up. Why not have a thunb print database that links our names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card info, and the works. That would be great.
I read maybe 6 months ago in popular science magazine that they would be putting cell phone information out there for people to try in select cities. All of our information would be stored on our cell phone and it could be swiped at various convenience locations thus eliminating the need for a plastic card.
Ideally, if dogs can be chipped now to scan and identify them in the event of loss, then the concept of scanning a thumb to identify credit is just as feasible. I'd get into the spare thumb market now, while the concept is still relatively unexplored. Cut em off and freeze them on a metal stub. Remove yours accordingly, and save it so that you can attach the thumb of your chosing for appropriate identity theft!
I'm just kidding, but this is the wave of the future. There was a time when nobody thought you could like about your identity online and now everyone does it. Caveat Emptor. Let the buyer beware.

Virtue

A pre political society has people that are inherently one way or another. All sorts of political thinkers vary their opinions on this and there is no correct answer to this. Hobbes thought all people were inherently evil and sacrificed freedoms to maintain peace, hence any gov being good gov, people naturally competitive so forth. I mention this because I assume the opposite that everyone is naturally cooperative and that virtues are demonstrative positive attributes to people. Lack of a virtue is negative in itself and needs no polar opposite. So viciousness would lack of compassion and lack of some other independent attribute. I haven't sat down and thought of the virtues as features, but I'd probably use utility, creativity, compassion, constraint, wisdom, agility, and ability.
Lethargy would be lack of utility and ability. So forth.
Just my own little theory. I borrow from catholic(universal) theology's virtues a tad, but mostly my own spin.

I think your view on virtues depends on your view of people innately. If people are innately peaceful in your opinion, then assume they possess pos attributes from the start, if neg view on people in state of nature, then neg view on attributes. Christianity depicts its members as inherently evil by lineage, and assumes that they strive to become virtuous. That was Thomas Aquinas, the catholic saint and philosophers view point.

Anyway, This is not a religious debate, it's just that the best philosophers in my humble opinion were the ones that contested religious ideals.

Plato is my personal favorite though. The analogy of the cave was one of my favorite stories ever. love it.

Something I'd like to add. To compare us to animals is fair, but think of this: from a sociological point of view, a professional is one who strives for excellence (not perfection, there is no perfection to a professional) in their field or expertise and compares only to those other professionals in that field. Animals have insufficient mental capacity to evaluate and perform the types of analysis on themselves that makes them capable of determining whether or not they can enhance or falter in the process of being virtuous. Thus, making it improper to really compare animal to man. Sand is no more virtuous than plant by this standard, but girl can be more virtuous than boy or specific comparable better than specific comparable and like. It allows for more accurate comparison. The ability to reason is what makes us human. It used to be tool use, but since a monkey is able to grab a honey stick, cross over a hill, and then jab the honey stick into an anthill to pull out a delicious treat utilizing the stick as a tool, we are now classified as the only species that has the ability to reason.

Agree?