How can I be this person

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More thick-skinned. It annoys me as an adult my parents still have to correct me or they see me as immature. I wish I didn’t need to be corrected on anything or seldom corrected. Is it appropriate to correct people on their personal morality? Is that best left to God? I guess that prompts me once again to wonder about sin if you don’t feel bad about and can get away with it without it hindering your life, are you less culpable? If you conscience is more or less developed, is your sin greater or lesser?
 
Some people’s sins do not warrant harsh reprimands. You cannot tell a fully grown adult how to live their life morally if they can handle it or have proven to deal with it maturely/responsibly. Why should it bother you anyway? People’s private sins should be kept discreet. Sometimes the good Lord chooses to expose them.
 
If someone tells me I lack morals because I do not support abortion I feel nothing.

If soemone told me I lack morals because I steal stuff I might be annoyed…

The difference? Guilt. If you are actually feeling hurt by someone knowing and stating a wrong you are probably kidding yourself that you lack guilt…

Like an angry God hating atheist. There are those who simply doubt or disbelieve… but the angry are kidding themselves when claiming He does not exist… lest why be angry?
 
LethalMouse said:
If someone tells me I lack morals because I do not support abortion I feel nothing.

If soemone told me I lack morals because I steal stuff I might be annoyed…

The difference? Guilt. If you are actually feeling hurt by someone knowing and stating a wrong you are probably kidding yourself that you lack guilt…

Like an angry God hating atheist. There are those who simply doubt or disbelieve… but the angry are kidding themselves when claiming He does not exist… lest why be angry?
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So we intuitively know right from wrong. We really cannot deaden our conscience as much as we would like too. C’est la vie.
 
some people feel guilt because of a ultra scrupulous conscience.
 
Some people also don’t feel guilt much cause they have hardened their conscience through repeated sin, and from what I understand that increases culpability. Other things can decrease it but not being hardened to sin, which is the persons own fault.
 
Monica4316 said:
Some people also don’t feel guilt much cause they have hardened their conscience through repeated sin, and from what I understand that increases culpability. Other things can decrease it but not being hardened to sin, which is the persons own fault.
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Kinda harsh. Don’t you think?
And some people have been given very hard burdens in life.
 
I get annoyed when I am corrected. The smoke starts rising because I do not like what I hear. The truth is that it is my pride that gets in the way of seeing beyond the correction to someone loving me enough to care that I am on the right path. I also have to accept that God uses us as His instruments, so sometimes He gently leads me and other times He brings people into my life to lead or correct me. I would prefer that He did it but with hindsight, often a correction from a person is because I consistently failed to listen to God.

As sure as I am breathing, I will no doubt be corrected again and again, in many ways to steer me back on the narrow path. 😊
 
PelagiathePenit said:
More thick-skinned. It annoys me as an adult my parents still have to correct me or they see me as immature. I wish I didn’t need to be corrected on anything or seldom corrected. Is it appropriate to correct people on their personal morality? Is that best left to God? I guess that prompts me once again to wonder about sin if you don’t feel bad about and can get away with it without it hindering your life, are you less culpable? If you conscience is more or less developed, is your sin greater or lesser?
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Depends on who it is and what the situation is. There’s a time and a place for everything. Sometimes we just need to keep silent, but other times we do need to be bold and stand up against wrongdoing.

Just because you don’t feel guilty over a sin doesn’t make it any less wrong.

If your conscience is less developed, you’re not culpable in the same way a person who has a fully formed conscience is. As the Catechism teaches, in order for a sin to be considered mortal, it must be done with full knowledge of the gravity of the sin, full consent of the will, and be of a grave matter. If you’re not fully knowledgeable of its severity, then you don’t meet the requirements of it to be a mortal sin. So your sin is lesser.
 
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