According to the records, why do we tend to break the 10 Commandmends mostly with our loved ones as victims? It's clear that adultery is the most frequently committed crime. Also sexual abuse is often done by relatives. Not to speak of husbands murdering their wives and vice versa. And robbing relatives seems to burden our conscience less than taking things from strangers.
Now, if we're supposed like it is stated in the NT, to learn to live out of love so that Moses' law will be unnecessary as rules to live by in the end, but at the same time we commit most of our crimes to especially the ones we love most, er.... I am lost.
We're supposed to live with our neighbours as if they were all our brothers and sisters, but from the above point of view, we'd better continue to treat them as strangers
(This question came to my mind while I was busy writing some text for a leaflet about the play I am acting in. This play is about Judas and it tries to answer, from Judas' point of view, the whole point in betraying Jesus.)
I hope I made the paradox clear.
Please can I have your thoughts about this?
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I think Dr. Lecter from Silence of the Lambs may have said it best when he said, "Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature?...We begin by coveting what we see every day."
What do we see every day? How many opportunities are there every day for breaking the commandments and possibly getting away with it? Isn't it easier to commit these crimes in an arena where you feel comfortable? Where you know all the variables and can predict better what happens when you take an action?
It's also about probability. The ones we love the most are also the ones who are most likely to hurt us the most by their actions. They have more opportunities to hurt us in so many little, petty ways that build up and fester in a way that the same insult from a stranger or acquaintance cannot because we can get away from them.
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I guess I kind of understand, but Jesus also taught that we should be living the law in our hearts as well as our actions. So I don't think he wanted us to bring the "ferment" of the family boundary to the society at large. Also, I think society may have been a bit different then. Not that I find the notion outmoded. We all have an ideal of warmth and tenderness in the home, whatever the reality, and we wish we had the courage to share with everyone.
But then, this gets back to the original Liberal/conservative definitions thread.
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