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Judgment, Rash

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A fault against the eighth commandment committed by one who assumes the moral fault of the neighbor to be true without sufficient foundation

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§2477 CHAPTER TWO YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF

Respect for the reputation of persons forbids every attitude and word likely to cause them unjust injury. 277 He becomes guilty: - of rash judgment who, even tacitly, assumes as true, without sufficient foundation, the moral fault of a neighbor; - of detraction who, without objectively valid reason, discloses another's faults and failings to persons who did not know them; 278 - of calumny who, by remarks contrary to the truth, harms the reputation of others and gives occasion for false judgments concerning them.

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