Your Vice

c0ncept: I ask this as part of some rearch.
What comes to mind when asked about your "vices" or just vices in general?

Definitions include:
-an immoral or wicked personal characteristic.
-a weakness of character or behavior; a bad habit.

Big Bopper: I'm lazy. That's my vice. Oh, I drink, I like a puff, and nothing is more beautiful than a woman, but these aren't problem behaviours.

Drinking is costly in Canada, so I brew beer and make wine. I ran a still for a few months and have enough for a year or two. I have a drink or two nearly every day, but some days I'm just not thirsty. If I have none, I don't drink, and I always have some and still sometimes, don't drink.

I work my skinny white a** off in my garden, maybe an average of an hour a day all year. I play ice hockey a little and as much tennis as I can, and need to train a bit to avoid injury. I walk beside the ocean a few times a week. My house is a shambles, but I try to keep my vehicle maintained.

I like nothing better than sitting on my tail and watching something.

Women, two many or not oneough are my only problem!

So you tell me...is my laziness a vice?

c0ncept: thanks for the response. Laziness might be a vice if you are being lazy more than you should, but I guess only you could know that.

Big Bopper:
Being unwilling to do more than I need to does keep me:
1. single;
2. 'stuck' in a house 200 metres from the beach in a great little town
3. and able to keep my fridges and kegs full of food and beer.

I guess it only seems like a vice if I want more than I have. Thanks for the chance to think clearly about how I live!

c0ncept: "it only seems like a vice if I want more than I have."

You gave me some interesting perspective as well.

That is an interesting statement. I suppose nothing is a vice if the person is aware of it being a vice and perfectly content in the consequences of having that vice. Because it is a willing choice. Most things that are addictive too though are not so much of willing choice because of their addictive powers. Laziness might be an addiction too. Everything pleasurable is addicting and while you have a choice, it is not an easy one.

Big Bopper: You could add to that by qualifying it by saying '...if the person is aware of it being a vice...AND not harming others'.

Interesting. Our world is so diverse in our perspectives and attitudes toward our different behaviours. I can live easy here, but in an economy where survival alone requires significant effort, my 'laziness' could be considered a vice-like behavior.

c0ncept: very true, most vice-like behaviors are harming others because they put a drain/tax on the economy. That too can be a matter of perspective depending on factors like the vice itself.
If you are living in a situation where you have a lot of surrounding land to support yourself (food, shelter, pollution, sewage, ect) then whatever you indulge in does not harm others, but in a world where land is becoming somewhat of a shortage, people are forced into not being able to be as lazy because what they do affects the "pollutive" content of the shared resources (like water). It all comes back to balance and living in harmony with the land.... The amount of land to support so many people.