{"id":2005,"date":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2012\/01\/12\/the-seven-sins-deadly-or-necessary-are-we-born-mad-or-are-we-damaged-goods\/"},"modified":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"the-seven-sins-deadly-or-necessary-are-we-born-mad-or-are-we-damaged-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2012\/01\/12\/the-seven-sins-deadly-or-necessary-are-we-born-mad-or-are-we-damaged-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seven Sins: Deadly or Necessary? Are We Born Mad or Are We Damaged Goods?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAMAGED GOODS. A Journey Through Hell makes for a Moral Sinner.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe misguided acts of my past have brought me here to the virtues  of my present and will hopefully lead me to the grace of my future.   <\/p>\n<p>Sin is mistakes in the face of youthful abandon. I found my moral limit because  I crossed  my own line and did not feel good about it.\u201d Corey Taylor, Seven Deadly Sins.  <\/p>\n<p>Sin isn\u2019t a transgression but a natural human characteristic that allows for moral development. <\/p>\n<p>BORN BAD.  The Apple doesn\u2019t fall far from the Tree. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat repulsive spectacle of fraud&#8230;his face was the face of any honest man, it shone with such a look of benediction; and all the rest of him was serpentine.\u201d Dante, Inferno.<br \/>\nThe idea of Original Sin, with Eve and the snake.  <\/p>\n<p>Evil exists because we have free will. How can we avoid it? \u201cComplete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.\u201d Augustine, Confessions. <\/p>\n<p>REDEFINE SIN.<br \/>\n\u201cSin is a matter of opinion,  and in my opinion sins are only sins if you are hurting other people.  So if you\u2019re not hurting anyone else, where\u2019s the damn sin?\u201d Corey Taylor, Seven Deadly Sins.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only absolute either\/or there is, is the choice between good and evil.\u201d Kierkegaard, Either\/Or.  <\/p>\n<p>We must moderate sin, so that we do not live in a life of repression or chaos.<br \/>\nWe must make the sins relevant to modernity, to find the right balance between what really is deadly, and what is just a natural part of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophie Hall, 2012, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[592,22,123],"tags":[4,37,174],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-592","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-kierkegaard","tag-morality","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}