Has your virtue been tested?

Yes.

It can be hard with that demon that lives inside.

What virtue?

If a virtue looks like a crayon, then, no.

People are neither good or bad, but behavior certainly can be judged right and wrong. If people were intrinsically bad, there would be no such thing as redemption. If they were perpetually good, no one would ever make a mistake. And these behavioral decision are always judgement calls and I believe that the degree of virtue is tested more than the blatant disregard for them...so yes, I am sure that I have rationalized situations in order to justify a dent in my value system but the price paid is ultimately guilt and remorse. I think that we all experience this, some more than others. We are always testing the strength of our beliefs in every complex situation that we come upon...it comes down to a matter of degree.

I'm sure.

Not that I know of, but my values aren't set to such a rigid degree that I can't weigh the most important things at stake in a given situation and and use my judgment based on that.

Yes, and I have failed.

No because I have no virtue... Bwaaahaaa

Not really, but perhaps hard to say. Possibly my virtue is so solid that things weren't even questions to me that might have been for others.

I have had circumstances force me to reevaluate what my position was in the first place though; not compromising my values so much as coming to realize that they were unrealistic or not so virtuous to begin with. I had a share of stuff happening on the spiritual plane for which there was no ethical precedent to follow, forcing me to contemplate creation of the appropriate guidelines.

R47 brings up a related topic. Thankfully one benefit of my lifestyle, always doing what one believes is right, means I haven't had any guilt in 20 years. I've had remorse over things which turned out to not be the best choice, but as I always did my best with what I knew at the time, I've had nothing to be guilty about. Stressed though, while determining the best, through the roof at times.

Even if I did make a mistake, I'm also forgiving of myself and others. The past is the past. It's only something to not forgive and feel guilty about if you plan on not learning from your mistakes and possibly doing the same thing again some time if the circumstance comes up again.