On the Nature of Things | Forum

I am just curious as to how people would answer this

Yes. sometimes it is genetic, sometimes it is created by POS parenting.

Without a command ethic, it is seemingly impossible to distinguish a bad character from a good one. As GEM Anscombe said in her 1958 paper, Modern Moral Philosophy, "In present-day philosophy an explanation is required how an unjust man is a bad man, or an unjust action a bad one; to give such an explanation belongs to ethics; but it cannot even be begun until we are equipped with a sound philosophy of psychology. For the proof that an unjust man is a bad man would require a positive account of justice as a “virtue.” This part of the subject-matter of ethics, is however, completely closed to us until we have an account of what type of characteristic a virtue is – a problem, not of ethics, but of conceptual analysis – and how it relates to the actions in which it is instanced: a matter which I think Aristotle did not succeed in really making clear."

I think we can say a good character tends to favor service to others and to futurity over hedonistic pleasure. I would not want to reduce command ethics to a preference for societal prosperity over personal gain, but I think obvious societal benefits can be found in Christian command ethics.