What IS good, and how do we determine it?

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Please don't misunderstand. I know the 2 are worlds differently. I just wanted to know if your comment  that it's wrong to say someone "shouldn't act on the impulse that is part of who they are and their human nature" applied to all people, or if it applies just to some people.

Let me make one thing perfectly clear: As long it's about consenting adults, morality doesn't come into it. I couldn't care less what everyone does in their private bedrooms, since they are, well, private.

Look, I generally like your attitude and agree with rexbecca that it's refreshing not to be patronized and preached to for a change. But that's one of the major problems I have with religion in general. Sticking it's nose into other people's business and calling that morality. It's being nosy, plain and simple and it's got nothing to do with morality.

And as for catholics priests, it would be more interesting how the percentage looks among people abusing a position of authority, since that's what they do. The general male population isn't that interesting, but teachers and the likes.

These are the statistics for my own country. It's not just about a few bad apples in this case.

Austria

In November 2010, an independent group in Austria[58] that operates a hotline to help people exit the Catholic Church released a report documenting physical, sexual, and emotional abuse perpetrated by Austrian priests, nuns, and other religious officials. The report is based on hotline calls from 91 women (28%) and 234 men (72%), who named 422 perpetrators of both sexes, 63% of whom were ordained priests.[59][non-primary source needed]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_C...buse_cases