Talk:Vice Inducement/@comment-301598-20121118234628

Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs. To label it a sin is to suggest that humans are not eligible to choose which beliefs they embrace or reject, and ecclesiastical authority has the right to rob the free will granted by the creator to the individual.

And fraud, treachery, violence can all be means to lead a horse to water rather than any destructive ends -- especially if they already set themselves on destructive ends. Intent and results are both key to whether they're employed immorally. Now if someone habitually, or pathologically, is drawn to these means as solutions, the hammer to every nail, that would suggest motivation in any of the basic seven deadly sins. These do not warrant separate mention here.