Good and Evil Actions

A Defense of the Perverted Faculty Argument against Homosexual Sex

“…The members of an infertile heterosexual couple are by nature fitting subjects for reproduction, but are unable to realize this end through some accident of nature. The nature of an infertile person as a fitting subject for reproduction with a member of the opposite sex does not change through some accidental defect . A blind eye still ought to see, a damaged kidney still ought to process blood, and infertile sexual organs still ought to reproduce.…”

“…There is a clear difference between preventing a natural function from being engaged and directing it to a contrary end. Evil action consists in the exercise of a natural faculty to achieve an end other than the one it should be directed toward by nature . The action must begin with some function and actively engage it to an end other than the one it should take.…”

“…The direction to the end is still present in the act, even if not intended by the agent. No faculty is being misused …”

“…To act badly is to misuse these purposes by directing them away from their proper ends. Evil action, as Stephen Jensen puts it, ‘makes the person himself to be evil, for it removes the order the person has to the good.’…”

“…From this we see that each human act has two orders: The first order consists of the end towards which an action ought to be directed. The second order consists in the end to which an action is in fact directed.…”