Jesus

The most popular and visible form of virtue ethics today is the "What Would Jesus Do?" (WWJD) campaign. This slogan can be seen on t-shirts, sweat-bands, and bumper stickers. The idea is that rather than considering whether a given act is against the Ten Commandments or some other set of rules, we should instead take Jesus as our role model and consider the general kind of act in question. Indeed, we might not even break …

…appreciation of sex. They are like kids in a candy store rather than connoisseurs in a wine shop who head straight for the finest champagne and then savor it slowly and single-mindedly. Again, you must judge for yourself, but if Chesterton is right then there might be something objectively wrong with Thrasymachus's skepticism. He might be missing out on a full enjoyment of life's pleasures by refusing the focused, limited gratification that Christian ethics commends.