Ignorance as Moral License: Hopeless
December 3, 2007 § 4 Comments
One of the themes I’ve stressed here from time to time is the appeal to ignorance as a moral license. So among the great many interesting things said in Spe Salvi, this one also caught my attention:
Failure to recognize my guilt, the illusion of my innocence, does not justify me and does not save me, because I am culpable for the numbness of my conscience and my incapacity to recognize the evil in me for what it is.
Zippy Catholic 
This is something the Pope should turn on himself and his lack of governance regarding the abominations of nullity tribunals and the people and marriages they are immorally destroying.He remains guilty as charged, by the conscience he ignores.Karl
So, are you saying that ignorance is <>never<> a moral license?
<>So, are you saying that ignorance is never a moral license?<>Not knowing that what one is doing is wrong can never make it right, though it can make one not personally culpable for the wrong one does.
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