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Post by malleodei on Dec 19, 2013 11:55:44 GMT -6
Well, there's a sermon in there somewhere about the freedom that Adam thought he'd have after eating the forbidden fruit, but that's another story for another time.
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Post by showmedot on Dec 19, 2013 12:15:52 GMT -6
I don't think any of us knows what we might actually do in a crisis, our own or someone else's.
I found myself reacting very differently than I thought I would in such a situation.
As it turned out, I couldn't carry through as I had carefully thought out beforehand, and oddly, that I couldn't proved to be a better choice by far than anyone anticipated.
Seemingly hopeless situations can still produce surprises at times.
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Post by malleodei on Dec 19, 2013 13:13:17 GMT -6
There's no guarantee that one will do the right/moral/good thing in a crisis either. Free will is mitigated in a crisis, precisely it is because it is a crisis. One can't really make a full informed decision when in crisis mode, especially when the stakes are life and death. That is why, in Catholic moral theology, there is a distinction made between objective wrong and subjective culpability. One may not be imputed a mortal sin on their soul for a serious sin committed if there are mitigating factors that affect one's ability to give full consent of their will.
And I suppose that both sides of this debate can point to this fact as the reason why there should or should not be a law on euthanasia.
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Post by Flitzerbiest on Dec 19, 2013 13:58:57 GMT -6
Since Catholic teaching is not the basis for public policy, there is no reason for laws permitting euthanasia not to develop. Let Catholics die the way they want to. Let the same be true of the rest of the population.
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Post by malleodei on Dec 19, 2013 14:09:59 GMT -6
::smh::
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Post by Flitzerbiest on Dec 19, 2013 14:33:52 GMT -6
Why? I would genuinely like to know why you think the rest of the population needs to adhere to Catholic teaching on a matter so personal as what options ought to be available for the dying? I'm fine with Catholic teaching being normative for Catholics. |
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Post by showmedot on Dec 19, 2013 17:24:03 GMT -6
I'm not sure what you mean by "a full informed decision," Mal.
Could you elaborate?
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