Was I an accessory to someone's sin?

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One of my parents was making an uncharitable comment about a person on T.V saying they looked like a comedian who dresses as a women. They didn’t know the name of the comedian so they asked me to ask another person in the house. I did so right away but as I was asking I suddenly thought that I could be assisting my parent in sinning if they used this information I was obtaining for them. I still continued to ask and the other person relayed the information back to my parent who used it to fulfill their uncharitable comment.
Does it sound as though I being scrupulous again or was I really an accessory to someone’s sin?
 
What I believe is that if your heart and mind was in a good place and you had good intentions, then you have nothing to worry about. It doesn’t sound like a crime what was being asked of you to do (although I know that getting caught up in gossip for instance is not very Christian, so that would be an example of sort becoming an accessory willingly) but if you felt it was wrong and did it anyway, then that is on your conscience…which is not good. Just my view. Does it make sense what I am saying?
 
FAH said:
Does it sound as though I being scrupulous again or was I really an accessory to someone’s sin?
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nobody in this story has sinned at all, so, no.
if you have a problem with scrupulosity this sort of question should be addressed to the one priest to whom you always go for confession and spiritual direction, not to anonymous third parties. It will not help you, and can do grave damage, to speculate about whether the actions of other persons are sinful.
 
This is how I see it:
Consciously making an uncharitable comment about someone is a mortal sin.

I helped someone obtain knowledge that they later used to make an uncharitable comment.

At the time I helped them obtain this knowledge I knew that they would probably use it to construct an uncharitable comment about another person.
 
FAH said:
This is how I see it:
Consciously making an uncharitable comment about someone is a mortal sin.
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No, it isn’t. that does not rise to grave matter.
FAH said:
I helped someone obtain knowledge that they later used to make an uncharitable comment.
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If someone asks me where the nearest gas station is, I tell them, and they rob it… I have not committed a sin.

You gave an answer to a question. period. No sin in that.
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At the time I helped them obtain this knowledge I knew that they would probably use it to construct an uncharitable comment about another person.
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Not a sin.

There are a million ways they could get this information.
 
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If someone asks me where the nearest gas station is, I tell them, and they rob it… I have not committed a sin.
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But if you suspected they would take the information you gave them and use it to do wrong would you still tell them?
 
FAH said:
But if you suspected they would take the information you gave them and use it to do wrong would you still tell them?
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They were not using it to “do wrong”. Obviously your scrupulosity is preventing you from understanding that.

Talk to your priest. If you have convinced yourself this is a mortal sin, no one here can convince you otherwise.

I am out of this thread.
 
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