Double Effect
...the moment. Telling the truth because you don’t want to see someone die for something they didn’t do, not wanting the glory of being the one saving the person would make the person have the right intentions, I would only want good out of the situation, telling so a mans life was to be saved. If the only reason someone is doing it, is to rat the guy who told him out, and want good to come of it you shouldn’t even bother, I wouldn’t want anyone dying if I were to break the oath, but only for everything to be okay. Good things from telling the truth about the person not being the guilty, would be they don’t die, they get to live their life fully, and maybe keep his family alive himself because their is the main source of work, and so his children grow up to be normal and have a loving mother or father there through their childhood. Also the good would be that my conscience would be clean, and would be clean of any wrong doings, not having to think about “what if” because I kept my mouth closed and a non guilty man died because I was too afraid or something of that sort to stand up and be a loyal Catholic, and humane person. The bad might be that the person who told, being me in this situation, that me and my family might die, because I broke the oath, after I was sworn to secrecy and threatened. In my eyes, the good does outweigh the bad, because if I weren’t to tell, a good man were to die, and then I would die inside in my mind, with a guilty conscience for not telling the truth, other than telling, having the person live that was wrongfully convicted, and then have the chance of dying myself. There are ways to avoid having good and bad come of the situation. Since the death pena...