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Inability to understand basic "distinctions" is the bane of modern society, including Traditional Catholicism, creating false dichotomies everywhere.  Every Catholic (nay, every person) should be required to take at least one class in formal logic before graduating High School.  Not everything is a dichotomy, a black and white.  This "either you're for marijuana or against it" stuff is utter nonsense.  It is this same inability to make distinctions that allows the powers that be to program the minds of the sheep.  If you have concerns about the jab, then it's because you want people to die of COVID.  If you don't unequivocally support Ukraine (despite their war crimes and evils), this means that you're for the murdering of innocent civilians.  If you don't categorically oppose all marijuana use, then that means you're a "doper", a "pothead," a non-Catholic who favors evils such as abortion and same-sex "marriage".

I find this debate utterly repugnant from a rational perspective.  It deeply offends my intellect to keep reading this garbage, and to see the thick skulls here absolutely impervious to reason even after people have tried to enlighten them about the appropriate distinctions to be made.

Distinctions were the chief tool of the Catholic scholastic theologians to sift through error and navigate to the truth.  How sad that we've come to this point.

Inability to understand basic "distinctions" is the bane of modern society, including Traditional Catholicism, creating false dichotomies everywhere.  Every Catholic (nay, every person) should be required to take at least one class in formal logic before graduating High School.  Not everything is a dichotomy, a black and white.  This "either you're for marijuana or against it" stuff is utter nonsense.  It is this same inability to make distinctions that allows the powers that be to program the minds of the sheep.  If you have concerns about the jab, then it's because you want people to die of COVID.  If you don't unequivocally support Ukraine (despite their war crimes and evils), this means that you're for the murdering of innocent civilians.  If you don't categorically oppose all marijuana use, then that means you're a "doper", a "pothead," a non-Catholic who favors evils such as abortion and same-sex "marriage".

I find this debate utterly repugnant from a rational perspective.  It deeply offends my intellect to keep reading this garbage, and to see the thick skulls here absolutely impervious to reason even after people have tried to enlighten them about the appropriate distinctions to be made.

Distinctions were the chief tool of the Catholic scholastic theologians to sift through error and navigate to the truth.  How sad that we've come to this point.

I hear you, and I completely agree. We have to be rational, precise in our thinking, and make distinctions.

One of St. Thomas Aquinas favorite words was "Distinguo" -- "I distinguish".

It really becomes second-nature to one trained in logic and rational argument. But it's becoming a lost art.