Thank goodness we have a plain speaker in Archbishop Vincent Nichols, who tells it as it is.
As reported in the Guardian of 22nd February 2012, the Archbishop said,
Phrases like "abstract moral evil", he said, are not aimed at any individual. "One talks about objective moral evil, you might say today, that's racism. No matter what's intended or understood, that, objectively, is wrong. In a similar way, you can say, in every sphere of life there is objective moral evil. But that does not imply subjective moral guilt. That does not imply guilt on an individual."
So now you know.
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So, let me get this right. Is the Archbishop saying that, if someone offends me and I give him a fat lip, it is an objective moral evil, but no individual guilt attaches itself to me?
Is he arguing that the guilt is collective and not personal? Sounds lke Peter Simple's Dr Heinz Kiosk to me.
It's nonsense, whatever.
I thought aquinas had this one sorted: if you murder someone drunk, the murder is murder, but NOT FULLY imputable to you.
What IS imputable is getting drunk enough to murder.
The more imputable if you know yourself capable of murder when drunk and have taken no steps etc.
A Baby at the controls of a deathdealing-car is an accident.
Am I mistaken or mistooken?
Mike Cliffson - you are, of course, absolutely correct. I think that Fr Boru was being ironical, his comment being directed at the wishy-washy language employed by the Archbishop.
As you will perhaps have gathered, Fr Boru is a plain-speaking, plain-dealing Priest, hence his ASBOs.
No doubt you will also have guessed that said Priest is a beloved figment of my own imagination.
God bless!
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