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Originally Posted by luckyme
Only 'cause I can't think of something relevant to this area that isn't an action. Sitting here quietly I am committing thousands of actions, the fact that none of them are earth moving doesn't make them non-actions.
If I'm ever doing 'non-action' they'll be writing out the death certificate soon after.
Are you just nitting for the sake of it? A sin of omission is a sin where
an action, different from the one taken,
would have prevented or reversed evil. As opposed to a sin of commission, where the action taken
was itself the evil.
I don't think the distinction matters in the least, but it's hardly difficult to spot. I feed birds while three feet away a man drowns - is feeding birds a sin? No - allowing a man to drown is. You could get very nitty and say that 'allowing to drown' is an action - and it is - one which 'omits' the responsibility (I assume) you feel to help those in need. This action/inaction jazz is all news to me.
I'm sure this must all relate to some prior issue I didn't get a look at. Looking at your posts ITT... you do realise that 'sins of omission'
are in fact considered to
be sins - to be evil? That in Christian thought these sins are to be recognised and atoned for? Because I see you're saying "labeling some 'omission' and 'commission' is our way of reducing guilty feelings"... I guess the phrase 'sin of omission' has some connotations for you that it doesn't for me.
Anyway, that's the standard Catholic line on the matter AFAIK. For OP purposes, obviously the first is o, the second c. Where did all this come from, does anyone know?