Questions to the Moralist - Personal Web Server - Boston College

teleology in its condemnations. That is, what VS is condemning the proportionalists are
not in fact saying, but we'll go into this more in class.
Above question answered in class
My thoughts or reflections relating to Moral Theology
I am thinking of how to evaluate myself regarding Moral Theology and I realize that the
best way to do it is to check what character I have been developing in myself or in which
point of view I am when I am faced with a specific moral issue.
First of all, I agree a hundred percent with my professor that this world is morally
complex. I have traveled around the world and at the same time, I have been living in
different cultures. To live in different cultures have made me change my point of view of
this world. I can say from my own experience that some cultural behaviors are right for a
specific culture and are not acceptable for other cultures. When I was in Australia, I
understood very well that the boy or girl, after his or her fifteen (15) years old, is free to
leave his or her house and to live with a friend or boyfriend or girlfriend. The government
allows them to do it. I will try to put an example: a traditional Catholic Italian family
moves to Australia with three children, two boys and a girl. The girl at that time was 10
years old. When she was already! 15, she asked her parents one night for permission to
go to a nightclub with her boyfriend. Her parents said no because her parents knew very
well what kind of things people usually do in the nightclub, perhaps to dance, to drink, to
smoke and etc. The parents considered that she was too young to go there but for her, it
was okay because she was already inside the Australian system of culture and also her
batch from the school were doing it very often. She was crying and she called the police
and explained to them the situation. Certainly, the police arrived at her house and
explained to her parents that to forbid her to go out is against the Australian system and
this act is wrong because she is already 15 years old. So the police allowed her to go out.
She went out with her boyfriend and she came back the next day and the parents were
silent and did not say anything in order not to breaks the Australian law. The relationship
between he! r and her parents started to be difficult because were hard for her parents to
understand her behavior and also for her to understand the position of her parents. So the
relationship was really getting worse. She was thinking of leaving her house in order to
make her own life, but she was confused, she did not want to hurt her family by leaving
them and she thought “if I make them happy, I end up hurting myself “…
So I am just asking myself what happened with the cultural values of her parents?
For me, this is really a moral complex world. From this simple example that I tried to
situate, I can see one of the conflicts that many migrants are facing today. The parents
have problems connecting the traditional Italian norms regarding the education of their
children and to recognizing the new norms and the new country. I think that they have
big controversies within themselves on how to follow the traditional norms and to accept
the new norms. I can see that the police was doing the right thing according to the
Australian norms of law. The girl, perhaps, was in a big mix because she did her own
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