2007-03-23 00:13:01 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Everyone is always truly innocent both directly and indirectly.
The idea of guilt is just nonsense created by religion to control people. We have just heard it all of our lives so we never really question the validity of the idea.
If we actually think logically about it, the whole idea of guilt simply falls apart.
Love and blessings Don
2007-03-23 04:11:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. A newborn infant is truly innocent. A bystander in a place where he or she has a reasonable expectation of safety, who is gunned down by a sniper, is truly innocent.
___In a relationship between two non-familial adults, no one is truly innocent, since the interaction provides both with opportunities to influence the dynamic. But one can be far more innocent than the other, and that's what most often matters.
___Why ask for absolutes in regard to a highly complex situation, unless you're asking a rhetorical question?
2007-03-23 00:21:54 · answer #2 · answered by G-zilla 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are not "indirectly" innocent if you use manipulation to get your way. However, are you guilty of committing all the crimes carried out in the last 24 hours? To that, I bet you are "truly innocent," directly or indirectly.
2007-03-23 00:24:23 · answer #3 · answered by NeNe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes innocent directly or indirectly. The view that people are all part of a machine called society and are all to blame for what happens in society is a filthy socialist idea.
2007-03-23 00:22:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, a person who has JUST been baptized is innocent because all stain of original sin has washed away.
We are not born innocent, though, because we all have a fallen nature (i.e. we all come into this world with a tendency towards sin). So just because you haven't committed any sins (i.e. a newborn) does not mean you are totally innocent. There is still original sin.
A good analogy of original sin would be like a baby who is born with the strong tendency towards a certain disease because it runs in his family. He is "healthy" at birth (i.e. no symptoms) but given time the condition will start to manifest itself. So you can't really say at birth he was perfectly healthy although he appears to be.
Sometimes in life we are truly wronged by others (a victim) and in those cases we would be considered to be innocent according to civil law and in God's eyes, but in the overarching sense our souls can never be perfectly innocent until we are fully purified and enter Heaven. If we are not purified on Earth, it is finished in Purgatory.
2007-03-23 02:05:59 · answer #5 · answered by Veritas 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must be referring to the Bibical concept of Original Sin, such that the sins of our fathers (and mothers) carry over to their children even as soon as they're born.
First, it seems to go against any concept of justice that we recognize to punish the (otherwise-innocent) children of those who have sinned or committed some crime, moral or legal. That makes as much sense as punishing our neighbor or pet for a crime we committed. Further, condemning a newborn to damnation (if s/he is not baptized) casts suspicion on how just or merciful our creator is. (A cop-out response might be that we just don't understand God's reasoning...but if the other laws of nature and God are evident through reason, why not this one too??)
Also, the whole concept of sin and divine punishment is suspect as well. If our souls are eternal, and we are judged by our actions during our 70 or so years of life on earth, then that seems to be comparable for punishing a 1-month old baby for something. What's 70 years compared to an eternity?? Even on our deathbeds, we are essentially still newborns in the bigger picture of (alleged) eternal life; just like a 1-month old on earth, we really haven't been around long enough to pick up the wisdom and knowledge we need to successfully navigate the physical and spiritual world.
And what god requires us to apologize and ask for forgiveness, as if we -- puny humans -- can possibly do anything to offend a god? We flatter ourselves too much.
And of course, we can talk about theodicies and the problem of evil, but that would take an eternity, and who's got the time??
2007-03-23 04:18:15 · answer #6 · answered by no_good_names_left_17 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, your only innocent in as much as the perception of innocence is, a baby might be the purest form of perception of innocence that there is when it is first born? No one can even know that for sure, because no one can know if a baby can think in the womb for sure or not or when that may begin nor what kind of thoughts it may be taking in from the outside. So I am not sure.
2007-03-23 02:20:17 · answer #7 · answered by Friend 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a law in Ancient Rome pertaining to this subject. A child was considered "innocent" only until age 8. (They had trouble with home-schooled child killers who said "Da-dee") This would depend on the amount of education available but it is a good rule to follow.
2007-03-23 01:10:16 · answer #8 · answered by Chatty82 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone is innocent to some degree. Usually, the younger a person is, the more innocent they are.
2007-03-23 01:23:21 · answer #9 · answered by ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes anybody can be truly innocent at some point of time...
but to me...animals are always innocent..coz they are not 'endowed' with the skill to lie, which would harm somebody else( except their attempts to survive on this rock)
2007-03-23 00:33:03 · answer #10 · answered by close_in_destroy_everything 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋