Looking around the world today it is quite clear that a great many are not leading as good a life as they potentially could. Here it has been suggested that this situation could, to some extent, be improved on were people in general to become more virtuous as this would have a positive impact on the cognitive abilities and capacity for decision-making. Against this it has been argued that it is naïve to talk about virtues. That there is little evidence is there that we can achieve stable character traits and, further, that the best explanation for why we keep behaving the way we do is that it is human nature.