CATECHESIS ON CHRISTIAN

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Marvin B. Latras March 04, 2019

BSBA-III B Ms. Ma. Victoria C. Diolola

The Seven Modern Social Sins

“Bioethical” violations such as birth control

The use of contraceptives – the deliberate interference with the natural
process of fertility in order to prevent conception - is widespread across the global
community. Hormonal contraceptives are considered convenient and effective
methods of spacing children – or even not having children at all. Meanwhile, barrier
methods of contraception are hailed as the answer to international problems such as
AIDS and other Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs). Together, both methods allow
individuals to exert full control over their reproductive lives. However, the effects of
widespread contraceptive usage are perhaps not as clear as they first seem.
Hormonal contraceptives come with their own health risks – some of which will
remain unknown. They also raise a host of medical questions concerning their
mechanism of action (how the contraceptive actually works) and whether or not
contraceptives have an abortifacient effect (a drug which allows conception to occur
yet renders the woman’s womb hostile to implantation – effectively, working as an
early abortion). This is particularly problematic for Judeo-Christian or Islamic
tradition where life begins at conception. Yet, the ethical questions arising from
contraception are by no means confined to questions of health. The increased usage
of contraception has contributed to a new understanding of the role of sexual
intercourse, the family and the notion of responsible parenthood – all of which bear
intimately on the functioning of society as a whole.

“Morally dubious'' experiments such as stem cell research

The stem cell controversy is the consideration of the ethics of research
involving the development, use, and destruction of human embryos. Most commonly,
this controversy focuses on embryonic stem cells. Not all stem cell research involves
human embryos. For example, adult stem cells, amniotic stem cells, and induced
pluripotent stem cells do not involve creating, using, or destroying human embryos,
and thus are minimally, if at all, controversial. Many less controversial sources of
acquiring stem cells include using cells from the umbilical cord, breast milk, and
bone marrow, which are not pluripotent.

Drug abuse
Also known as Substance abuse Drug abuse also plays a role in many major
social problems, such as drugged driving, violence, stress, and child abuse. Drug
abuse can lead to homelessness, crime, and missed work or problems with keeping a
job. It harms unborn babies and destroys families

Polluting the environment

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment
that causes adverse change. Pollution can take the form of chemical substances or
energy, such as noise, heat or light. Pollutants, the components of pollution, can be
either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring contaminants.

Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor

The main theory why have a gap between rich and the poorare inequality and
growth are negatively correlated is that poorer people invest less in their own education
and self-improvement - which is why its main anti-inequality prescriptions are government
investment in skills and education, and a focus on a promoting better quality jobs.
Strikingly it isn't saying that the best way to greater equality and faster growth is to soak
the rich. Instead it wants activism focused on raising the living standards of the poorest.

Excessive wealth
An individual who is considered wealthy, affluent, or rich is someone who has
accumulated substantial wealth relative to others in their society or reference group.
In economics, net worth refers to the value of assets owned minus the value of
liabilities owed at a point in time.
Creating poverty
Global poverty occupies a unique position as both the ‘blind spot’ and raison
d’être of an international legal system that has long attempted to secure a veneer of
cooperation, justice, and legitimacy over a reality of competition, conquest, and
exploitation. As such, it vividly illustrates the radical indeterminacy and
‘schizophrenia ‘that ‘tear[s] apart the fragile structure’ of international law. That this
contradiction appears to be little analyzed, that there is so little conversation to
detail, is testament to the strategies deployed to naturalize, excuse, and obscure the
‘fact’ of poverty.
Citations:
 http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/law/9780198701958.001.0
001/oxfordhb-9780198701958-e-48
 https://medlineplus.gov/drugabuse.html
 https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stem-cells/
 http://www.bioethics.org.au/Resources/Resource%20Topics/Contraception.h
tml
 https://www.wikipedia.org/
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