Morality Unit- Chapter 26
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Legitmate Defense | The teaching that limites violence is morally acceptable and defending yourself and your nation from attack |
| Capital Punishment | Another name for the death penalty, a sentence sometimes given to people who commit serious. The Church teaches that the necesity for capital ounishment in todays world is rare |
| Just War | War involves many evils, no matter the circumstances for war to be just, it must be declared by a lawful quthority, there must be just cause and the right intention (self defense), a weapon must be used to only protesct innocent people from harm |
| Conscientious Objection | refusal to join the military or take part in war, based on moral or religious grounds. ________ objectors must see approval of their status from the government |
| Arm's Race | the competition bewtween nations to build up stockpiles of weapons of all kinds, including weapons of mass destruction. Many of these stockpiles are large enough to destroy the world several times |
| Abortion | The termination of a pregnancy by killing the unborn child. The Roman Catholic church considers abortion a contrardiction of the moral law and crime against life |
| Genetic Engineering | Manipulating the genetic code of plants, animals, human beings or to alter it in some way. Activity with human DNA is considered a violation of the sanctity of life |
| Euthanasia | a direct action or deliberate lack of action, that causes the death of a handicapped, sick or dying person. People attempt to justify it as an act of mercy intended to relieve suffering, but the Catholic Church rejects that position and considers it _________ violation against 5th Commandment |
| Suicide | Taking ones own life. Serious violation of Gods law and plan. Usually accomplished as a result of serious mental and emotional anguish and in such cases is not a free deliberate act |
| Attitude | An action or attitude- or the failure to act- that leads another person to sin |
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