What IS good, and how do we determine it?

[Catholic_Lady]

Schools do not make the claim of the moral high ground as does the church.

What does the moral high ground have to do with abusing children, the people who abuse children whether part of the church, a street thug or school teacher are guilty of a immoral and illegal action, period. Not only that, when was the public school system not a place that up holds morality.

GC

I understand why people think it is worse/more scandalous when church clergy does it than when school staff does it. I actually agree with them. Church clergy are representing God, and with great power comes great responsibility. It's particularly terrible when someone who claims to be a man of God does it.

What I don't understand is why people are willing to basically say "priests are bad" but not willing to say "teachers are bad". Especially since it has happened soooo much more often with teachers.

And why people are willing to say "well, since out of a billion Catholics, there is a very small percentage of bad seeds, I think Catholicism in general is just bad" and yet they are not willing to say "well, since out of a billion teachers, there is a very small percentage of bad seeds, I think schools/education in general is just bad."

There are a small percentage of bad people in every group and in every establishment. This does not make the entire group itself bad, nor does it make the establishment as a whole bad. The only time this seems to apply is when we are discussing Catholic priests, and I don't understand why. But it is what it is, and I'm ok with that.

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Absolutely on the bolded!

Me thinking a particular action is immoral does not warrant treating anyone badly for it. I can say that I often do things that are immoral too, and I would not want people to throw stones at me for it.

I hardly think throwing stones at you would be anyone's reaction to your openness to being bad.  How bad do you like to be?

Like all people, I can be very selfish at times.

I can yell at my husband for petty things, I can be impatient with my family about stuff, and can be lazy at times and not get stuff done, etc.

No one is perfect, and that is what Jesus meant when he said "He who has never sinned, cast the first stone." If I was going to be here to throw stones at anyone who disagreed with me or who did things that I thought were wrong, I'd also have to except people throwing stones at me for the many wrong things I do.