Comment: 6/6 To understand the moral equation, consider a hypothetical.

You hate Bob. You do not hate him a little, you would like to wipe him off the face of the earth. With loaded AK-47 in hand you go off to find and eliminate him.

Fred tells you that Bob is hiding in a box, which he points out.

You take a position 15 feet from the box and empty a magazine into it riddling it with holes. You then insert a fresh magazine into your weapon and empty it into the box as well.

You approach the riddled container, open it, and find it is empty.

Have you committed a sin? If you have committed a sin, what sin did you commit?

Think about Jimmy Carter’s famous statement to Playboy in an interview: "I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times."