Posted: May 23, 2016 1:46 am
by Spinozasgalt
John Platko wrote:
Spinozasgalt wrote:No, pedophilia is unnatural, because it frustrates the proper ends of the sexual organs. Or some Catholic shit.


:nono: That's not how our Catholic "shit" works. :picard: Post menopause women can still have sex without offending God- according to Catholic doctrine- as long as sex ends in the approved way of course. And I see no reason why symmetry wouldn't hold on the other end of the spectrum. So, it is not final cause that protects children from such abuse but rather the Sacrament of Marriage which Catholic doctrine prescribes all sex must be shrouded in.

Thank you for that lecture. As long as we're here...

You'll notice my joke was about the naturalness of pedophilia, rather than protections or offense to God. Clearly you don't think pedophilia is contrary to the ends of the sexual organs (hopefully you just don't have any truck with that sort of view), but then you've left the status of pedophilia in Catholicism, as natural or unnatural, unclear. Marriage offers a philosophical protection because it excludes pedophilia as ordered towards a marital good. That doesn't tell us why pedophilia is so excluded or in what sense it's a perversion.