RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 23, 2015 at 1:30 am
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2015 at 1:33 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(June 22, 2015 at 10:15 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(June 22, 2015 at 12:44 am)rexbeccarox Wrote: Because you say so? Because the Catholic church says so? You can't think of any situation in which it is morally right to steal?
It is acceptable for a starving person to steal food, but not more than is necessary.
From the Catechism:
2408 The seventh commandment forbids theft, that is, usurping another's property against the reasonable will of the owner. There is no theft if consent can be presumed or if refusal is contrary to reason and the universal destination of goods. This is the case in obvious and urgent necessity when the only way to provide for immediate, essential needs (food, shelter, clothing . . .) is to put at one's disposal and use the property of others.191
Translation: We, the Church, think that the moral absolutism of the 7th commandment does not take into account the vicissitudes obtaining in the real world, so we see fit to alter the Word of God as follows:
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The requirement to interpret and interpolate Biblical verse renders any claim to moral objectivity laughably naive. The 40,000 sects of Christianity demonstrate this.