, a physiciansees and hears things that are calculated to be a temptation, but hisreason is the exercise of his profession), no sin is committed; but ifthere is no just reason for the action (e. investigate in order to prevent harm to public orprivate good; in war one may try to discover the plans of the enemy. (a) Thus, it is merelyoptional, when no duty to others commands self-defense and a divinecounsel invites one to omit it (see 1169). , the knowledge and the free choice) of a moral virtue.
--(a) The extreme of defect iscruelty, which is a hardness of heart, not moved by the sufferings ofothers, that disposes one to inflict excessive punishments. Hence, those who seek venerealpleasure outside of matrimony, or outside the way intended by nature,act unreasonably, for they sacrifice the end for the means. Fulgentius), and that it brings condemnation on the guilty person(St. Duty of a Lawyer Who Discovers that a Case Is Really Unjust.
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