Monday, 10 March 2008

The Seven Deadly Sins - Version 2.0

The Vatican has updated the original mortal sins with seven "new" sins, bringing the church up to date on a number of issues that may have been overlooked...1500 years ago.

The new seven are:
1) Environmental pollution
2) Genetic manipulation
3) Accumulating excessive wealth
4) Inflicting poverty
5) Drug trafficking and consumption
6) Morally debatable experimentation
7) Violation of fundamental rights of human nature

#'s 1-4, 6, and 7 demonstrate varying levels of ambiguity, making me question their real life applicability (what is "excessive" accumulation of wealth? does using a styrofoam cup count as environmental pollution?)

# 5 is curiously specific. Why only drug traffickers? What about human traffickers? Stolen-goods traffickers? Everything-else traffickers?

1 comment:

Nicholas Dan said...

The Church was outdated? The Church was vague? The Church oversimplified issues? Oh well it’s the thought that counts.