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When what were regarded in a more primitive age as negative attributes are magically re-formed so they shine as virtues, it is easy to persuade ourselves that these represent human nature.
But the Viper wears all those vices as virtues.
Stanley Kubrick? "His faults have been rationalized as virtues".
Then again, blanketing acoustics obscure faults as well as virtues.
"My job is to take the things we think of as virtues," he says, "and explain why they're only masquerading as virtues".
The vaunted wisdom of Euroscepticism has had costs as well as virtues.
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Positively, usefully, a sense of relativism-as-virtue was what Conrad was all about.
"Hyper-sensitive, politically-correct, victim-as-virtue culture is creating a leadership class of wimps.
They regard his supposed flaws as great virtues.
Now, luxury is packaged as virtue.
It is wickedness dressed up as virtue.
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