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| | | | Situation Ethics: Evil Depends on Circustances |
Since good and evil depends on the circumstances, the following is true:
If
one believes that a medical condition allows one to commit an act which
violates a precept without harming others, then it is a necessary evil.
A good example is the fact that an orgasm for a male prevents and/or delays the onset prostrate cancer.
Since
the easiest way to have an orgasm for a man is to masturbate, then the
sexual "sin" is forgiveable due to medical expediency.
However, one should not pretend that the sexual act outside of marriage is condoned by confusing masturbation with coitus.
While
the person who masturbates uses sexual fantasies which may involve
sexual misconduct, because it is a mind-only delusion necessary to
prevent future suffering, one won't go to Avici Hell for such a
transgression.
But it is immoral to fantasize about seduction of
bodhisattvas, since that could harm one's rebirth in such a way as to
condemn him or her to the most difficult of births, that of a human
being.
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