Basically – you easily can, but you won’t (and it takes self-control not to). There is nothing virtuous in the incapability to do damage. This cannot be considered virtuous any more than you’d consider someone physically unable to speak silent on purpose. If you have no capability to be a monster, to yourself and others, you are – as a clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson calls it – just… “harmless, like a rabbit, you cannot do anything but be eaten.”

Virtue is something that demands effort, that expects of you to surpass and rise above your primary instinct of what you are capable of and not do it because you’ve DECIDED not to. You’d probably see a lion not eating a wounded gazelle nearby as virtuous – because you know what its nature is and what it can do with the fangs. But he is still not virtuous, just probably not hungry or in a need of siesta (he’s a cat after all). Heroes become heroes not because they are rid of all human emotions and dualities, but because they’ve defeated the monster. Often depicted in literature and movies a hero fights outside monsters, but is equally a monster himself. We want our heroes virtuous – they are symbols. But we also want them human. We want them to have to defeat their humanness in order to rise. You wanted Lot’s wife not to turn around and look back at the destruction of Sodom. Oh if only she didn’t, she’d be safe with her family. But you also needed her to turn around and be turned into a pillar of salt. You need examples of humans doing human things, failing to be heroes, just as much as you need the virtue to win and show you it is possible – Hulk to control his pant ripping dark anger, Luke Skywalker to be a son of the dark but DECIDE to not follow in his father’s footsteps, Batman to defeat his own personal hell (we presume it’s easier with a mansion and a butler), Greeks needed their Gods just as damaged, envious, angry, scheming as real humans – they needed their heroes to be constructed in their image and not the idea they were created in the God’s image – where they would continue to fail to reach the unattainable standard of godliness.

You need them to be monsters beneath, to be flawed and for their humanness to seep out through the virtue – this is when they become more real, a true example that virtue is attainable even if you are just… human.