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I am a (transfer) first-year university student at a public school, so I didn’t expect godly behavior. I knew about the condom express program because the flyers are at the front door in the dorm lobby; applicants fill out their information, send it, and get a nondescript envelope in their mailboxes.
I live in a triple dorm and saw that each of my 18 year old roommates had picked up a flyer. I didn’t comment because it’s none of my business, of course, and I didn’t want to cause friction (I do have lots of religious décor, though…Catholic art calendar, my calligraphic renderings of the Angelus and Apostles’ Creed…) but today I decided to try opening my mailbox and found en envelope addressed to one of my roommates. In hindsight I now know this was stupid but I didn’t immediately make the connection because there’ve been a lot of things to keep track of and I had already sent my mailbox out through a social networking site which my roommates had connected themselves to me on, so I thought maybe the package was FROM the roommate (I just remembered–duh! the name in the center is the recipient!). Anyway, I opened the package and found my roommate’s ordered condoms.
I asked a nearby staffmember what I should do with mismatched mail and he said even if I opened it, it’s not an uncommon problem in the first few weeks and tomorrow I could straighten it out. But now I’m wondering…
Is this an opportunity to throw away the condoms? If she never gets them will that be that much sex she won’t have until she orders more? Would it be a lie of omission? On one hand, I don’t want to lie. On the other hand, I don’t want to, even at that small level of redirecting property to its rightful owner, be involved in sin. Would it be sinning to redirect the condoms? Right now they’re still in my box.
I live in a triple dorm and saw that each of my 18 year old roommates had picked up a flyer. I didn’t comment because it’s none of my business, of course, and I didn’t want to cause friction (I do have lots of religious décor, though…Catholic art calendar, my calligraphic renderings of the Angelus and Apostles’ Creed…) but today I decided to try opening my mailbox and found en envelope addressed to one of my roommates. In hindsight I now know this was stupid but I didn’t immediately make the connection because there’ve been a lot of things to keep track of and I had already sent my mailbox out through a social networking site which my roommates had connected themselves to me on, so I thought maybe the package was FROM the roommate (I just remembered–duh! the name in the center is the recipient!). Anyway, I opened the package and found my roommate’s ordered condoms.
I asked a nearby staffmember what I should do with mismatched mail and he said even if I opened it, it’s not an uncommon problem in the first few weeks and tomorrow I could straighten it out. But now I’m wondering…
Is this an opportunity to throw away the condoms? If she never gets them will that be that much sex she won’t have until she orders more? Would it be a lie of omission? On one hand, I don’t want to lie. On the other hand, I don’t want to, even at that small level of redirecting property to its rightful owner, be involved in sin. Would it be sinning to redirect the condoms? Right now they’re still in my box.