The Problem With Virtue Ethics

People who will not go beyond what is the right thing to do may choose middle way between an excess of some quality and too little of it. The very people who will be best spies are the people who are the most manipulative, the most deceptive. So they're almost the least likely virtuous people in some ways because they won't have these fundamental traits that ow them always to do the right thing. But by analogy, think about soldiers. We want soliers who are able and willing to kill when ordered to do so, but we also want them to be able to refrain from killing if, for example, the order which they receive is manifestly wrong and all unlawful.