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How should a just God punish us for our moral wrongdoing?
In my last post, I wrote of moral hazards created by privacy, using extramarital affairs as just one example (really, any legal or moral wrongdoing facilitated by secrecy illustrates the point).
There was once a tradition in this country of people breaking the law for principled reasons, typically to protest or expose even greater moral wrongdoing, but accepting their lawful punishment as a way of underscoring their personal commitment to the polity and its laws.
Innocence Lost: An Examination of Inescapable Moral Wrongdoing.
Moral wrongdoing that could in principle be justifiably criminalized would thus form a subcategory of the larger category of moral wrongdoing.
And this situation, albeit tragic and unfortunate, has the virtue of not involving clear moral wrongdoing.
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Carlisle thinks Christian theology is amply supplied, and is one of our best resources, offering as it does a taxonomy of evils: moral evil (human wrongdoing), natural evil (calamitous earthly events, like earthquakes and tsunamis), and "metaphysical evil" (our predicament as human beings, to be mortal and to have limited powers of knowledge), among others.
Whether Kington's resignation Tuesday came from moral acknowledgement of wrongdoing or a panicked response to public frustration, his stepping down has been the only true statement he's made.
BEIJING — China's ruling Communist Party expelled the once-powerful political leader Bo Xilai and charged him Friday with a long list of moral and criminal wrongdoings, even as it set a date for a once-in-a-decade transition to new leaders.
And as those political leaders named denied any legal wrongdoing, a moral argument is gaining traction for widespread reform of the offshore tax system.
In their discussions of the "problem of evil", theologians have distinguished between the "moral evil" of human wrongdoing and the "natural evil" wrought by destructive events like earthquakes and tsunamis.
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