ViaCrucis
Confessional Lutheran
- Oct 2, 2011
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"Thoughts" and "intentions" are two different things to me. Thinking about how good it would feel to punch someone you're mad at and refraining from doing so is virtuous. However, actually planning and intending how you will carry out the act is sinful, even if something external happened to stop you from doing it.
Just speaking personally, I think wanting to punch someone and thinking how good it'd feel and not going through with it wouldn't be virtuous so much as just doing the bare minimum of what's good. The bigger problem here is that I find in myself the desire to punch someone and that I would take pleasure in the act.
I would classify that as being itself sinful.
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