Note also, Fr. Wolfe is not talking about theft alone, but theft predicated upon murder (ie., see my “stealing money from grandma” example earlier in the thread).
I really wish we had some catholic scientist who could answer the questions of the vaccine process. For me, it's hard to create an accurate analogy of all the sinful activities in order to properly analyze the morality of each. If the debate has now shifted to theft of fetal cells, then the important question is:
Does the taking of fetal cells ALWAYS cause death, or is it survivable?.
This is the best analogy I can come up with: Suppose you have an international criminal ring who's main work is to αssαssιnαtҽ people for money. 75% of their business is to sneak around and kill rich people. Most of their customers are the family members or business partners of these rich people, who want inheritance money or they want to own the business partnership fully.
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Now, a smaller part of this criminal ring's business (25%) is to kidnap people and steal their organs, which they then sell to pharmacies who use these organs to make a drug that cures a specific kidney/lung/heart disease. Sometimes they steal kidneys, sometimes hearts, sometimes lungs, etc. The theft of 1 kidney or 1 lung does not kill a person, so this criminal ring's theft of this kind is not murder, even though 1) 75% of this criminal ring's business is assassination, and 2) they may still decide to kill the victim after taking a kidney/lung so the victim can't call the cops. Obviously, the theft of a heart causes the murder of the victim, but a kidney/lung does not (unless you take both kidneys or both lungs). But we'll assume they just take 1.
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So, here are my questions:
1. Does a person who knowingly receives a "life saving"** drug made from this criminal ring's activities participate in the 75% of the criminal's "murder industry", or just the 25% of organ theft activities? I would say just the organ theft part.
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** We'll assume for argument that covid vaccines are "life saving" as that's the established medical/political/social lie of the day.**
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2. If the theft of a kidney/lung does not cause death, then how can one be involved with murder? If the criminal ring decides to kill the person after stealing their organs, that's their decision,
but murder is not an effect of the organ theft, but a separate sin..I wish I knew more about this vaccine process.