> Is this unreasonable? I don't like hypotheticals because we can always construct one to justify anything. Want to justify torture? Invent a hypothetical 'tic

> Is this unreasonable? I don't like hypotheticals because we can always construct one to justify anything. Want to justify torture? Invent a hypothetical 'ticking time bomb scenario'. It depends on people's individual beliefs; if you want to restrict the board to certain beliefs, you'd better ask everyone. > You explain why I don't want to accuse any individuals of guilt. Just that it seems that overall, as a group, there seem to be unacceptable beliefs held. I don't understand how a group can hold beliefs. The mechanism doesn't exist; humans are not hive minds. More importantly, you can't accuse the group without accusing all its individual members. Unless you want to unjustly penalize the >1 billion individuals and apply group guilt, there's no application for this 'group belief'. The Catholic Church as an institution, is different from the group of all Catholics.