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In the time we live, there is great debate about what are seen as culture issues. These are perhaps the
sharpest divides in our social and political discourse.
While we can often find ways to compromise on things such taxes and spending; culture issues are much more divisive. What the world declares as culture issues are often in fact moral issues or questions. Perhaps this bit of wordsmithing of “culture Issue” rather than “moral issue” makes it more comfortable for people to disagree. If these hot-button issues are just culture issues, we are free to have different opinions and disagree. If something is seen as a moral issue, it creates a much more uncomfortable relationship between those on opposing sides. Suddenly someone is seen as right, and someone is seen as wrong. And nobody wants to be seen as wrong, especially on an important issue.
The Catechism of The Catholic Church paragraph 1749 states on The Morality of Human Acts that
“Freedom makes man a moral subject. When he acts deliberately, man is, so to speak, the father of his
acts. Human acts, that is, acts that are freely chosen in consequence of a judgment of conscience, can be morally evaluated. They are either good or evil.”
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sharpest divides in our social and political discourse.
While we can often find ways to compromise on things such taxes and spending; culture issues are much more divisive. What the world declares as culture issues are often in fact moral issues or questions. Perhaps this bit of wordsmithing of “culture Issue” rather than “moral issue” makes it more comfortable for people to disagree. If these hot-button issues are just culture issues, we are free to have different opinions and disagree. If something is seen as a moral issue, it creates a much more uncomfortable relationship between those on opposing sides. Suddenly someone is seen as right, and someone is seen as wrong. And nobody wants to be seen as wrong, especially on an important issue.
The Catechism of The Catholic Church paragraph 1749 states on The Morality of Human Acts that
“Freedom makes man a moral subject. When he acts deliberately, man is, so to speak, the father of his
acts. Human acts, that is, acts that are freely chosen in consequence of a judgment of conscience, can be morally evaluated. They are either good or evil.”
Continued below.
What’s Wrong About Right and Wrong? – Catholic Stand
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