One problem is that things like this tend to lead to affective death spirals. You start praising virtue X (which is a virtue because it leads to positive effect Y), then you start especially praising the extremely virtues practitioners willing to do X even when it doesn’t lead to Y.
One problem is that things like this tend to lead to affective death spirals. You start praising virtue X (which is a virtue because it leads to positive effect Y), then you start especially praising the extremely virtues practitioners willing to do X even when it doesn’t lead to Y.
So, like Olympics level athletics, where winning takes skills that are increasingly irrelevant to any other use of them?
Except most examples aren’t this harmless.