Awareness
Everyone should have/desire the virtue awareness. Awareness is the knowledge of a person's surroundings. Having the virtue awareness is also having a consciousness.
Having awareness is also keeping yourself and others safe. For example I will include two different scenarios, one having two people both not aware and the other is having one out of the two people being aware. Scenario 1; you and your friend are walking to your next class. It is required for both students to cross the street. Both are unaware of on-coming traffic and collide with an incoming vehicle. One or both students could be critically injured or even dead. Scenario 2; you and your friend are walking to your next class. It is required for both of you to cross the street. At least one of the students are aware of their surroundings and stops until traffic has subsided. Both cross the street until it is safe to do so. The difference between the two is that having awareness keeps you safe and if everyone has this virtue then we will more likely to not end up in situations like scenario 1. People need to stride towards having this virtue. Not to long ago the media had a headline on how a father forgot his child in his car. The baby died because it was too hot and it couldnt breathe. If he was just more aware of what was going on, his child would be still alive today. The reason why we see absurd warning labels is because someone is extremely unaware and is unknowledgeable. Realistically absurd warning labels should not exist because everyone should have awareness and if everyone in fact has awareness there wouldn’t be absurd warning labels in the first place. For example an absurd warning label is when batteries say not to consume them. Everybody should be aware that is absurd and just unintelligible, but in fact for that label to exist someone had to try it.
The world would be a better place if all people had awareness.
1.All precautions of safety are virtuous.
2.All acts of awareness are precautions of safety.
3.Therefore, all acts of awareness are virtuous.
I agree. I think that awareness is a very important virtue to have. Like you said being aware of your surroundings and other peoples is having consciousness as well. Also, the examples you listed, give us a better meaning as to why awareness is such an important virtue to have. Overall a good post!
ReplyDelete-Danielle
1. All senses of carefulness are virtuous.
ReplyDelete2. All acts of awareness are senses of carefulness.
3. Therefore, all acts of awareness are virtuous