Chapter 3 Catholic Social Teaching test UPDATED

environment is an unborn child in a different environment than a born child - nevertheless, where one is should not be the determining factor of one who is

Explain environment in SLED

level of development is that an unborn child is certainly much less developed that a born baby - however, ones development does not determine ones personhood

Explain level of development in SLED

size is that a small child is no less a human than an adult

Explain size in SLED

The Church's stance against aborion, even in the unfortunate situation of rape, is not meant as an uncompassionante treatment of the woman who has experienced such violence, but instead a refusal to allow violence to be extended to another innocent victim - the unborn baby.

Explain the Church's reasoning in opposing abortion even in cases of rape.

The degree of dependency of an unborn baby is undeniably dependent upon his or her mother

Explain the degree of development in SLED

True

T or F - Because every man and woman is made in God's image and likeness and called to happiness in Him, every person is equal in dignity.

True

T or F - Contemporary society has undermined the family by changing traditional views on marriage and divorce.

True

T or F - If the death penalty is the only way to stop an unjust aggressor and protect citizens' lives, legitimate authority has the prerogative to impose the death penalty.

True

T or F - Some who promote a "right to die" mentality believe that the terminally ill or elderly threaten the economic well-being of other members of society.

False - a good action may have....

T or F - The principle of double effect recognizes that in some situations a bad action may have two effects: one intended and good and the other unintended and bad.

True

T or F - While condemning the serious sin of abortion, the Church does not condemn or judge the woman or man who has participated in it.

True

T or F - it is only when you understand the inherent dignity of all human life that you can really appreciate the right to life itself.

1. Respects the dignity of the human person including protecting one's own life 2. Murder takes an innocent life, whereas an unjust attacker is not "innocent" in the particular moment 3. Taking the life of an aggressor when it is necessary to defend life would not be murder 4. Taking the life of another is only a last resort; if there are other means by which to stop the aggressor, they must be taken

What are the four aspects of self-defense?

1. A cultural climate that sees no value in suffering 2. People who neglect God often think they have sole control over their lives 3. As an aging population puts pressure on a costly health care system, some see euthanasia and assisted suicide as "cost effective"1

What are the three main reasons for the development of a "euthanasia mentality"?

1. Is the action either morally good or morally neutral? 2. Is the intention of the action the good effect and not the bad effect that results from it? 3. Does the good outcome outweigh the bad one?

What are the three questions that must be asked to determine whether the unintended bad effect that results from the principle of double effect is morally tolerable?

reform, deterrence, and retribution

What are the three traditional reasons for punishing someone?

1. break down of the family 2. freedom as an absolute value

What are two major factors that have led to the disrespect for human life?

Unchecked personal freedom leads to an excessive individualism that ignores other people, and especially those too weak or dependent to defend their own rights.

What dies unchecked personal freedom lead to?

US Catholic Bishops strongly urged Catholics and other American citizens to work to abolish the death penalty

What do the US Catholic Bishops say about the necessity of capital punishment?

stem cell

an unspecialized cell that has the potential to become one of many specific types of cells - a cell itself or a more specialized cell

Euthanasia

any act or omission which, of itself or by intention, causes death in order to eliminate suffering

size, level of development, environment, degree of dependency

what does SLED stand for?

The reflection of God's image in every person

what gives each person inherent dignity ad worthy of receiving profound respect?

It means that dignity can never be taken away

What does it mean to say that dignity is inviolable?

The fifth commandment states that, "You shall not kill." This commandment prohibts murder and demads profund respect for the dignity of every human life.

What does the fifth commandment state? What does this commandment demand and what does it prohibit?

a lack of love for the other as a unique person with dignity

What is at the origin of every human attack?

The role of the government is to protect human rights, especially the fundamental right to life. A tenet of democracy is that laws should protect the lives and rights of all people, especially the most defenseless.

What is the role of government? What is a tenet of democracy?

the ultimate purpose of society is to protect the lives of people who make up the society. A person is never to be used for another's or society's gain. The ultimate purpose of society is not the society itself.

What is the ultimate purpose of society? What is not the ultimate purpose of society?

The type of stem cell research that is opposed by the Church is the type when all embryos are destroyed in order to obtain brain cells: this is seen as morally problematic, in that human lives are destroyed for the sake of research. At the core, reproductive cloning reduces the person to an object to be manipulated and controlled by another, even before he or she comes into existence; it is generally contrary to the personalistic norm.

What type of stem cell research is opposed by the Church? What is at the core of reproductive cloning?

principle of a double effect

a formula that aids in evaluating the morality of an act that causes an outcome one is normally obligated to avoid

Reproductive cloning

the deliberate production of genetically identical individuals

direct abortion

the deliberate termination of pregnancy by killing the unborn child

personalistic norm

the principle that maintains that a person is to treated as a unique individual, never a means to another's

physician-assisted suicide

the process of ending one's own life with the help of a doctor rather than directly by the doctor's hand