Conscience question

[Brindisi]

As part of research for something I have to do for work I joined Second Life.

I gave into a certain curiosity and went to a couple of places there that I shouldn’t have gone to. I knew that these would present temptations to me and I gave in to them.

I got into conversation with one female avatar in a lap dancing club. The conversation on my part was fairly innocent, and it was curiosity that kept me there. However, she used some coarse language and presented some provocative imagery.

I know that I should confess giving into this curiosity and the impure thoughts it generated. However, do i also have to confess leading this person into sin as well? I don’t think I said anything to encourage her, and I guess that’s why she was there, but if I wasn’t there at that time then sher wouldn’t have said the things that she said.

Any thoughts?

 

[AlanFromWichita]

As part of research for something I have to do for work I joined Second Life.

I gave into a certain curiosity and went to a couple of places there that I shouldn’t have gone to. I knew that these would present temptations to me and I gave in to them.

I got into conversation with one female avatar in a lap dancing club. The conversation on my part was fairly innocent, and it was curiosity that kept me there. However, she used some coarse language and presented some provocative imagery.

I know that I should confess giving into this curiosity and the impure thoughts it generated. However, do i also have to confess leading this person into sin as well? I don’t think I said anything to encourage her, and I guess that’s why she was there, but if I wasn’t there at that time then sher wouldn’t have said the things that she said.

Any thoughts?

I don’t know what Second Life is, so I can’t comment on that.

As far as your confessions, I would think the most important part is you deal with your own sins. You are right that that’s what she’s there for. You, IMO, are not guilty of making her sin, directly, in that she wouldn’t have been doing that if you weren’t there. That said, you are helping to finance the operation that’s exploiting her, so in that way you have helped finance her way into sin – and that’s something you might want to confess I’d think.

If you’re not sure, run it by your confessor anyway, is my opinion. Then again, I’m just a dude with a keyboard somewhere on the Internet.

Alan

 

[Scoobyshme]

As part of research for something I have to do for work I joined Second Life.

I gave into a certain curiosity and went to a couple of places there that I shouldn’t have gone to. I knew that these would present temptations to me and I gave in to them.

I got into conversation with one female avatar in a lap dancing club. The conversation on my part was fairly innocent, and it was curiosity that kept me there. However, she used some coarse language and presented some provocative imagery.

I know that I should confess giving into this curiosity and the impure thoughts it generated. However, do i also have to confess leading this person into sin as well? I don’t think I said anything to encourage her, and I guess that’s why she was there, but if I wasn’t there at that time then sher wouldn’t have said the things that she said.

Any thoughts?

I would still mention it because you facilitated her sin by your continued presence where you knew you shouldn’t be. We can participate in the sin of another in nine ways, actually:

1. By counsel. i.e., “I think you should have an abortion; go ahead and have the abortion. It will help preserve your lifestyle.”
2. By command. i.e., Telling your child, your friend, or your co-worker, “Have an abortion, you may lose your job if you don’t.”
3. By consent. i.e., “If you and your partner feel it’s the best thing, go ahead and have a sexual relationship, get married. even if you’re both of the same sex, etc. It’s nobody’s business.”
4. By provocation. i.e., “Have the abortion! Aren’t you in charge of your own life? The Pope is old and out of touch, who cares what he says.
5. By praise or flattery. i.e., “Oh, Senator, you are so courageous and kind in defending a woman’s ‘right’ to an abortion.”
6. By concealment. i.e., The pastor allows the senator, judge, president, etc. who has voted for, or otherwise promoted, abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, same-sex marriage, etc. to appear to be in good standing, when, in fact, they have caused grave public scandal by their actions. When the sin is public, the redress must be public. Although, I don’t disagree with the courageous bishops who would deny such persons Communion, I do believe that the “confrontation” should take place, without question, long before they arrive at the altar rail.
7. By participation. i.e., “I’ll drive you to the clinic. You need that abortion to be able to continue your lifestyle.”
8. By silence. i.e., You refuse to speak out against what is a clear violation of human rights, an incredible persecution and prejudice against a class of human beings (the unborn). You hide behind the Supreme Court’s unjust and inherently illicit decision on abortion, saying it’s the law of the land, when in fact it is the subversion and perversion of authentic law. The Nazi SS officers tried for war crimes used a similar defense, saying they were only following orders. They hung them, guilty as charged!
9. By defense of the evil. i.e., “It prevents child abuse by eliminating unwanted children; Women are more in charge of their lives, more liberated; it’s so much more sophisticated and educated a thing to do., “etc. etc.