Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine and I am a Dominican friar of the

province of St Joseph. I teach at the Dominican House of Studies and I work for the

Tomistic Institute and this is Pines with Aquinas. So folks will sometimes send me their questions about the

Christian life and I try to answer those questions. The move recently has been

voice memos because like what's not to love about a voice memo I suppose

when it's really long that is something that is not to love about a voice memo so I try to

keep them short nevertheless I received a question recently and I was like

that's worth more than a voice memo I think it might be worth a whole

video and the question is this is it intrinsically evil to participate or to attend a

pub crawl?

So a little bit of a silly question and maybe you are not the pub growling type.

Nevertheless, in inquiring into it, we come to discover cool principles and arguments which help to clarify our moral experience.

So, let's get after it.

Okay, before we launch, let's define our terms because maybe you're wondering, what does it mean to say that something is intrinsically evil?

Or maybe you're wondering, what is a pub crawl?

So when we say that something is intrinsically evil, we're talking about the type of action or a type of action that can't be done for any reason.

Okay, so it's never permissible, or it can never be justified or rationalized. Examples would be like lying or

murder or adultery or apostasy. There is no moral story you can tell in

which these things feature as a good part.

Okay? Now we compare those types of actions to other types of actions which while they might be bad in most circumstances,

can be justified or rationalized in other circumstances.

So like take for example cutting off your hand.

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