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08.01.2020 • 
Social Studies

According to st. thomas, which of the following claims is true?

a. human law must command all vice and repress all virtue in order to make the world an interesting place. st. thomas advocates the promotion of vice in order to create a medieval version of las vegas.

b. st. thomas thinks that human law must embody the teachings of christianity, and therefore must demand perfect virtue on the part of all citizens. those who cannot live up to it are to be punished harshly.

c. human law cannot forbid all vice and command all virtue, but rather can only forbid the worst vices, which are incompatible with human society and which most human beings are capable of avoiding.

d. human law must forbid all vice and command all virtue, because it is only through the application of laws with teeth that human beings will overcome their own wicked natures.

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