Imperfection and ignorance are not, in themselves, blameworthy and should never be classified as sins.
Sin is blameworthy because it is born of the human preference and the human will.
Yet we can hold a person blameworthy only if in the full possession of his or her faculties.
Nothing tells us that practical indifference deserves judicial punishment as distinct from other kinds of social responses to blameworthy conduct.
Second, certain actions may be "supererogator y" (praiseworthy but not obligator y) or "suberogator y" (permitted but blameworthy).
Among youth who did not evaluate the batterer's behavior as blameworthy, behavior problems increased as family violence severity increased.
