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ratbastid -- I'm curious about something. What if we described acts that cause harm as 'vicious' and acts that help people (or however you want to talk about acts that most people would describe as good). Then a virtuous person would simply be a person who tends to perform virtuous acts and a vicious person would be someone who performs vicious acts. Would you have trouble using this way of describing people? I'm wondering because we do seem to mean something when we say that someone is good or someone is evil, and this would allow us to use similar language without talking in absolutes.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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