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Songs deal maturely with variations on themes of romantic crises and infidelity, often with an intriguing, unpursued edge of extremity: "Vicious Love"'s title is typical.
Augustine's neo-Platonic leanings may show here in the thought that what distinguishes caritas from vicious love is whether it is directed toward God or toward the transient.
Still, what makes the difference between virtuous and vicious love is not an error of reason, but of will, especially when we turn the love owed to God towards ourselves.
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Augustine distinguished between love of an object for enjoyment (for its own sake) and love of an object for use, which makes the difference between virtuous and vicious loves.
It had undoubtedly reached the age of ingratitude, and my vicious taunts were love maturing into passion".
The parallels are all there – distrust of difference, penchant for the mob, love of vicious gossip, cheap showboating, desire for vengeance: basically, most of the worst human traits – but without ever particularly beating us over the head with them.
Which we really need to do, not because we have any great love for vicious murderers, but because the death penalty is a known destroyer of a fair and sober-minded justice system.
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