Out of My Personal Compass comes My Body's Personal Compass. If our human nature is the source of our moral compass, what do our human bodies, which belonging to our nature, have to contribute to our moral compass?
We propose 99 ideas that try to clarify the answer to 10 fundamentals questions regarding the moral contribution of the human body.
1. Sexual morality is changing in the name of progress.
2. There are deeper roots under the changes in sexual morality today.
3. Today matter does not matter.
4. We are morally obsessed with consequences.
5. Human nature has disappeared from our culture.
6. Technology split sex from the responsibility for love and life.
7. Ideology normalized the split.
8. The body is something we are, not something we have.
9. The intimacy of my body stands for my intimacy
10. My body communicates with its own natural language
11. The intimacy of my body communicates my intimacy.
12. Persons are not objects to be used as a means to other ends.
13. Treating what is personal as an object or as a means degrades it.
14. What is intimate is necessarily personal.
16. My decisions make me (MPC #1).
18. Men and women are different but equal.
19. Sexual differences are there to make love, not war.
20. Ignoring sexual differences fosters unjust discrimination.
21. Our sexual desires aim at the totality of the other person.
22. Romantic love is exclusive because it is total.
23. Lust is a lack in sexual desires.
24. Unless we put our sexual desires at the service of love, we will sacrifice love for the sake of lust.
25. To be honest, sexual desires need education.
26. Casual is not smart, even in sex.
27. Consuming porn consumes you.
28. Languages are for dialogues, not for monologues.
29. The first question is, how are you hurting? Not, whom are you hurting?
30. Reserving the intimacy of the body for the right relationship is an art.
31. Love does not justify sex, truth does.
32. Sex is fully honest in marriage only.
33. Love does not justify marriage; commitment does.
34. The vows of the will make marriage; not the will of the majority.
35. Chastity takes two to tango.
36. Marriage is a natural association, not a conventional one.
37. Marriage is good even if marriages are bad.
39. Adultery hurts even if consented.
40. Polygamy is not fair enough.
41. Cohabitation is illogical.
42. Marriage unites two people most.
43. There is no right to divorce.
44. Marriage is the only way to create people well.
45. The marital embraces speaks of marriage.
46. Marriage creates the stage for human fulfilment.
47. Spouses need a special chastity.
48. Identity is a matter of reality, not choice.
49. All marriages are unions, not all unions are marriages.
50. Judging acts is not judging people.
52. An inclusive society includes love and truth.
53. It is wrong to kill embryonic people to have more people.
54. Spouses should procreate with each other exclusively.
55. People should be begotten, not made.
56. Technology should help people, not substitute them.
57. Couples may not want children; but there should never be an unwanted child.
58. Respecting the spouses is respecting their body's fertilities.
59. The pill promised to fix marriages but backfired.
60. Abortion is taboo for the wrong reasons.
61. We all have the same basic dignity because of what we are; not because of what we do.
62. All humans have equal, basic dignity and rights, embryonic people included.
63. Birth control does not justify choosing who lives and who dies.
64. Using embryonic people demeans their dignity.
65. Medicine restores; technology manipulates.
66. Medicine needs a profession that professes.
67. Health professionals are stewards; not masters.
68. Free, informed consent is some times necessary but insufficient.
69. Therapeutic research has ethical limits.
70. Non-therapeutic research needs more ethical limits.
71. Plastic surgery might be therapeutic; vanity surgery is not.
72. Transgender surgeries don’t change sex.
73. We may engineer organisms but not people.
74. Cloning people for health is also death.
75. Organ donation should be charitable, not marketable.
76. The body is a good of the person; not for the person.
78. If the body is alive, the person is alive.
79. Never kill, always care. Cure when proportionate.
80. Letting die may or may not be killing.
81. Proportionate therapies are obligatory.
82. Disproportionate therapies may be withheld or withdrawn.
83. We judge treatments; not people.
84. Quality of life is good but insufficient.
85. To be or not to be, should be the question.
86. Plan for the end of life responsibly; not dogmatically.
87. God has stamped his being in the sexual identity of our bodies.
88. The stamp has been disfigured.
89. The human body needs redemption too.
90. Marriages are not made in heaven.
91. The church is the sacrament of Jesus, who is the sacrament of God.
92. When Christians marry, they make a sacrament.
94. The marital act is a sacramental expression of marriage.
95. Married Christians are prophets.
96. Christian spouses lead like Christ.
97. Christian spouses are truly priests.