(June 21, 2015 at 11:17 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote:(June 21, 2015 at 10:25 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: No. This is what the Church refers to as subjective culpability. The Catechism specifically rejects the notion of subjective morality/moral relativism, using those exact terms.
And that is semantics. If the morality of an action is in any way dependent on the situation, that's subjective morality. Play all the word games you want, it doesn't change a thing.
You do not understand. Let me use the more obvious example that I used earlier to explain this to someone else.
An insane person goes into psychotics and kills 10 people at the mall.
The next day, a perfectly sane person, after much premeditation, goes into different mall and kills 10 people.
In both cases, the objective act of killing 10 people is immoral.
But the first person's culpability is less than the second person. This doesn't mean the act is any less immoral, it just means the person's culpability is lessened.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
