Community And Extramarital Sexual Relations:

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When looking at all of the issues we have discussed in Social Ethics, community and extramarital sexual relations have really made me think about or society and how we live. Every person chooses to lead their own life either ethically or unethically. I came into the class with no real sense of what my choices mean, and how they affect the turnout of whom and what I am. Each issue at hand has played some kind of role in my development of myself as a whole human being. Through the teachings in both our lectures as well as the texts I have not only learned many new things, but I now have a clear understanding just how things work in our society.
The topic I feel gave me the most important lesson in life was that of community. It is most common that people think of a community as an area with a networking structure. I use the word networking because a community to me is a group of individuals who are working together with a common norm. It is through our communities that we find ourselves dealing with what the books calls, the “moral tugs” in life. I feel the text Character, Choices and Community, best explained the importance of community when it stated, “…we are both unique and social beings, meaning that both of the concepts “I” and “We”, considered separately, are important but incomplete ways of speaking about our identity as humans. As a result, we experience and respond to the moral call as individuals and as communities.” (CCC, 58) Each community is different in its own distinctive way. Just as each individual is shaped by the individual actions and choices made, the community is shaped but a collective group of actions. We tend to pay attention solely to the actions and choices as individuals. In turn we are overlooking the communities that surround us.
There are many different biblical stories that talk about communities and how individuals have experienced community. For instance, you have the ...