It’s theft and breaches one of the commandments of the decalogue therefore mortal.
Does it fit the three conditions to make it mortal?
Does it fit the three conditions to make it mortal?
Get someone else, preferrably a non-Catholic to buy it for you, and no sin is involved.
I don’t think it is a full in the catagory of grave matter. Anyways, I may ask a priest to verify the gravity of this is sin. I just doubt it is a mortal sin. I think it is** venial**.
I had these in mind when I wrote the post and a good write up can be found on newadvent.com/sin.
well, I would suspect that buying the bootleg movie would essentially be petty theft. I’m ot sure whether that would be a mortal sin or not. But I am pretty certain the sin of scandal (causing someone else to sin) is, so this would be a worse choice.
I really just meant it as a joke. Should I keep my day job??
Despite what others wrote above, I don’t think it can be considered catagorically mortal. Mortal sin as has been stated requires:
It seems to me that this would involve two sins, since when you ask someone else to commit a sin, that in itself is wrong. It doesn’t matter at all whether the person is Catholic or not. When you influence someone else to do wrong this in itself is very wrong, and in addition is scandalous also. So you are heaping evil on top of evil if you do something like this.
LOL! Well, you never know-- since I don’t know you personally, I was afraid to assume anything. I have run into plenty of people who really do think this way.
I think asking to publishers is a great idea, but would caution that presuming their concent is far less good. There was a wonderful book that a Catholic Organization I worked for wanted to discuss at our corporate retreat. Our leader just wanted to discuss one chapter of the book and thus wrote the publisher to explain what he was wanted to teach and asked premission to copy a single chapter for 30 people. The publisher responded that they would not give premission but that since the topic he wanted to discuss was most fully covered on 3 or 4 pages, they would let him copy those 4 for 30 people on this one occasion.
Well, was the book available for sale at your location? If so, then why were you so cheap as to refuse to buy it ? I am talking about a different situation when the book is out of print or when the video is not available. Under those conditions, the publisher may be more willing to grant permission to make a copy.
Sure you have a choice. You have a choice to do something else with your time. Yes, you are in Iraq and want to have a way to relax. Can you read? Play cards? Other board games? Even charades? People in out of the way places have been making due with other pastimes for many, many years.
Uh, Bob…first off I was agreeing with your suggestion on seeing about getting a publisher’s premission to make a copy.
Because I think there are two different situations when (1) the book is available and (2) when it is out of print. If the book is available, people should buy it when they need it, and not be so cheap as to make a copy of it. Although, I would agree to make one or two pages of it for educational purposes is OK, provided there is no objection from the publisher. The situation that I was talking about was when the book is out of print or the video was not available in the area. under those circumstances, it seems reasonable to request the publisher to make a copy and there would be some jsutfication for making or buying one copy of it. However, if this is being done on a large scale with hundreds or thousands of illegal copies being bought or sold, then I would question as to whether or not this would be legitimate.Uh, Bob…first off I was agreeing with your suggestion on seeing about getting a publisher’s premission to make a copy.
Secondly, why accuse me of being ‘so cheap’?
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I figured it was a joke when I laughed but you may want to keep your present employment.
Is it really theft? Especially considering that I never had any intention of buying the movie when it becomes available.
