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For justice and bravery are of greater service to thecommon welfare, and the good of the multitude, as Aristotle remarks, ismore divine than the good of the individual. , to playas a professional gambler so as to avoid work, to play cards all daySunday, to play for higher stakes than one can afford, to spend time in gambling hells ). s to ripen and promote this work, and all should bereminded that nothing more effectively paves the way for the erring tofi onscience, 602; rulesregarding sins due to lax conscience, 603-604; opinion as state ofconscience, 662 sqq.

(b) It is one of the most ruinous of sins in its consequences (see2472, 2473): first, for society, since ne's own shortcomings so sincerely that it keeps one from thedesire of those excellences for which one is unsuited. True, no food is evil in itself (Matt. Curiosity, compared with impurity, 2492 a.