Pinning Down Definition Of Sins of Commission vs Omission - Page 3 - Religion, God, and Theology

I didn't say taking the 1K and giving it to charity justifies not saving the guy. I said it would make him less sinful than the guy who never stopped at all.

Sure, secularly I'd agree the guy's behavour is less unethical. In terms of most forms of mainstream CT, it might offset a few Hellpoints, I suppose. I'll just stop replying, you want theist views here.

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04-19-2009 , 01:42 PM

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sobefuddled

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I didn't say taking the 1K and giving it to charity justifies not saving the guy. I said it would make him less sinful than the guy who never stopped at all.

Disagree. Both deliberately chose self-serving behavior. In the second case the guy made a value judgement that said X charity was more valuable than this particular human life. He played God. Impersonating God is a bigger offense, IMHO. The first guy was either guilty of not seeing anything for himself in saving the guy or gulty of giving into fear that he could lose if he tried to save the guy. He might even have been so self-involved that he didn't even know the guy was in trouble.

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04-19-2009 , 03:44 PM

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David Sklansky

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Originally Posted by sobefuddled

Please. How could you not realize that I am comparing apples to apples. I am assuming that the only difference between the two prosective rescuers is that one need $1000 to be persuaded not to do it.

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04-19-2009 , 08:32 PM

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sobefuddled

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Please. How could you not realize that I am comparing apples to apples.

My bad-

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If I walk by a drowning man I don't like, it is a sin of omission as long as I had nothing to do with his drowning. But what if I notice someone rushing to help and I offer that person $1000 not to? (In other words I pay him to commit a sin of omission.)

Well, where I come from there are no sins of "omission" or "comission" There's just sin. In this case what you have is conspiracy to commit murder assuming that both men have the physical ability to save the drowning man. Motive doesn't matter. One is motivated by hate and the other by greed. Different strokes for different folks. Either way the poor guy out in the pond is dead. Killed by hate and greed. Equally evil.

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04-20-2009 , 02:09 AM

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shahrad

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Originally Posted by sobefuddled

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